"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 documen…
"Racial history has always been the thorn in America's side, with a swath of injustices ... slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills ... perpetrated against Black people. This very history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in th…
The book provides a panorama of Italian migrants' activities in Polish economy, political life and, above all, culture. The motivations of Italians who decided to travel to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and quite often settled there permanently, the reasons which made this …
An examination of Italian immigrants and their children in the early twentieth century, A New Language, A New Worldis the first full-length historical case study of one immigrant group's experience with language in America. By looking at language from the perspectives of both im…
This title explores the relationship between identity and place by examining the phonomenon of return visits to the home country made by first and second generation Australian immigrants.
