Memories of belonging

Memories of belonging: descendants of Italian migrants to the United States, 1884-present

by Wirth, Christa

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"Memories of Belonging is a three-generation oral-history study of the offspring of southern Italians who migrated to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1913. Supplemented with the interviewees' private documents and working from U.S. and Italian archives, author Christa Wirth documents a century of transatlantic migration, assimilation, and later-generation self-identification. Her research reveals how memories of migration, everyday life, and ethnicity are passed down through the generations, alter…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Memories of belonging : descendants of Italian migrants to the United States, 1884-present / by Christa Wirth

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"Memories of Belonging is a three-generation oral-history study of the offspring of southern Italians who migrated to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1913. Supplemented with the interviewees' private documents and working from U.S. and Italian archives, author Christa Wirth documents a century of transatlantic migration, assimilation, and later-generation self-identification. Her research reveals how memories of migration, everyday life, and ethnicity are passed down through the generations, altered, and contested while constituting family identities. The fact that not all descendants of Italian migrants moved into the U.S. middle class, combined with their continued use of hyphenated identities, points to a history of lived ethnicity and societal exclusion. Moreover, this book demonstrates the extent of forgetting that is required in order to construct an ethnic identity"

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Place of Publication:Leiden
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2015

Notes

Literaturverz. S. 357 - 403

The Physical Object

  • Description:XII, 406 Seiten : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789004284562, 9004284567, 9789004284579, 9004284575
  • oclc:ocn931708826
  • LC Classification:E184.I8
  • Dewey Decimal:973/.0451

Table of Contents

IntroductionOral history methodology and networks of memory -- Transnational migration networks : the paese in the rising global economy -- Memories of everyday life I : hard work and family life -- Memories of everyday life II : rural, urban, and suburban environments -- Memories of Italianness : pride, prejudice, and consumption -- Memories of Elvira and Giovanni Soloperto : in the shadows of memory and Dante's Divine Comedy -- Memories of the American dream : migration, assimilation, and the homeland -- Conclusion -- Epilogue : Italian Americans as the poster children of the immigrant paradigm?.

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Subjects

Américains d'origine italienne -- Entre… Américains d'origine italienne -- Histo… Américains d'origine italienne -- Histo… Américains d'origine italienne -- Ident… Américains d'origine italienne -- Sourc… Emigration and immigration Ethnic relations Ethnische Identität Geschichte 1884-2014 History interviews Italian Americans Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity Italian Americans -- History Italian Americans -- History. -- Massac… Italian Americans -- Interviews. -- His… Italian Americans -- Sources. -- Histor… Italienischer Einwanderer Italy Italy -- Emigration and immigration

Writers

Wirth, Christa

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