The Italian American Experience In New Haven

Author : Anthony V. Riccio
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 0791481700
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Italian American Experience in New Haven, The written by Anthony V. Riccio and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using interviews and photographs, Anthony Riccio provides a vital supplement to our understanding of the Italian immigrant experience in the United States. In conversations around kitchen tables and in social clubs, members of New Haven's Italian American community evoke the rhythms of the streets and the pulse of life in the old ethnic neighborhoods. They describe the events that shaped the twentieth century—the Spanish Flu pandemic, the Great Depression, and World War II—along with the private histories of immigrant women who toiled under terrible working conditions in New Haven's shirt factories, who sacrificed dreams of education and careers for the economic well-being of their families. This is a compelling social, cultural, and political history of a vibrant immigrant community.

Author : Anthony V. Riccio
Publisher : Excelsior Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780791467732
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Italian American Experience in New Haven written by Anthony V. Riccio and published by Excelsior Editions. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling social history of a vibrant immigrant community, told through interviews and photographs.

Author : Anthony V. Riccio
Publisher : Excelsior Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780791467749
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Italian American Experience in New Haven written by Anthony V. Riccio and published by Excelsior Editions. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling social history of a vibrant immigrant community, told through interviews and photographs.

Author : Anthony V. Riccio
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438452314
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Farms, Factories, and Families written by Anthony V. Riccio and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the rich history of Italian American working women in Connecticut, including the crucial role they played in union organizing. Often treated as background figures throughout their history, Italian women of the lower and working classes have always struggled and toiled alongside men, and this did not change following emigration to America. Through numerous oral history narratives, Farms, Factories, and Families documents the rich history of Italian American working women in Connecticut. As farming women, they could keep up with any man. As entrepreneurs, they started successful businesses. They joined men on production lines in Connecticut’s factories and sweatshops, and through the strength of the neighborhood networks they created, they played a crucial role in union organizing. Empowered as foreladies, union officials, and shop stewards, they saved money for future generations of Italian American women to attend college and achieve dreams they themselves could never realize. The book opens with the voices of elderly Italian American women, who reconstruct daily life in Italy’s southern regions at the turn of the twentieth century. Raised to be caretakers and nurturers of families, these women lived by the culturally claustrophobic dictates of a patriarchal society that offered them few choices. The storytellers of Farms, Factories, and Families reveal the trajectories of immigrant women who arrived in Connecticut with more than dowries in their steam trunks: the ability to face adversity with quiet inner strength, the stamina to work tirelessly from dawn to dusk, the skill to manage the family economy, and adherence to moral principles rooted in the southern Italian code of behavior. Second- and third-generation Italian American women who attended college and achieved professional careers on the wings of their Italian-born mothers and grandmothers have not forgotten their legacy, and though Italian American immigrant women lived by a script they did not write, Farms, Factories, and Families gives them the opportunity to tell their own stories, in their own words. “Anthony Riccio’s collection of women’s oral histories is an extremely valuable addition to the growing literature regarding Italian American women’s lives. The detail in which these women speak about their work lives as charcoal burners, clay kneaders, cheese makers, union organizers—one had her ribs broken—adds a much needed dimension to an understanding of Italian American women. This volume is filled with thoughtful reflections ranging from Mussolini to issues of social justice. Riccio has unleashed from these women dramatic and sometimes harrowing stories never before heard, or perhaps even imagined.” — Carol Bonomo Albright, Executive Editor of Italian Americana and coeditor of American Woman, Italian Style: Italian-Americana’s Best Writings on Women “What comes more naturally to the elderly but to reminisce? Riccio helps us eavesdrop on the first-person oral narratives of some of our earliest immigrants. We are grateful to him.” — Luisa Del Giudice, editor of Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans “I have long awaited a book like this: a history of Italian American women, in which they themselves are the narrators of their own lives. We hear from women without formal education; women who were workers, migrants, and mothers; women whose stories were often not valued enough to enter into the historical record, much less the archives. This beautifully conceived history is both a testament and a tribute to all working-class and im/migrant families and communities.” — Jennifer Guglielmo, author of Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880–1945

Author : Salvatore J. LaGumina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135583331
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Italian American Experience written by Salvatore J. LaGumina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Louis J. Gesualdi
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761858601
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Italian/American Experience written by Louis J. Gesualdi and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian/American Experience represents a meaningful attempt to inform Italian Americans about their group's varied experiences in America. This collection of eleven works offers readers an in-depth view of Italian American culture and heritage.

Author : Salvatore J. LaGumina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135583323
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Italian American Experience written by Salvatore J. LaGumina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The italian american experience written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis N. Elmi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761871993
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Italian Americans written by Francis N. Elmi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian Americans: A Multicultural View exemplifies a meaningful attempt to inform readers about the Italian Americans’ various experiences in the United States. Unlike many works on the Italian American experience, this unique text explains why popular negative notions of Italian American life are inaccurate. Moreover, this book provides useful information to help the reader become more cognizant of not only the Italian American experience, but the ethnic American experience in general. The eleven chapters of this book are an important beginning for the reader to become informed of the Italian American sociohistorical experiences, including the oppression, exploitation, and discrimination in the United States, past and present.

Author : Ben Morreale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760784389
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Italian Americans written by Ben Morreale and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavish history of Italian Americans in America provides a powerful focus on the immigrant experience with is packed with black and white photos capturing all facets of Italian American heritage and life. Over 200 photos in black and white and color pack a social history of Italian immigrants and how they have influenced American history and culture.