Lost World of Italian-American Radicalism

PHILIP CANNISTRARO is Distinguished Professor of Italian American Studies at Queens College and the Graduate School, City University of New York. An authority on the Italian American experience and the history of modern Italy, he has written numerous books, including works on fascist cultural policy, a biography of Margherita Sarfatti, and Blackshirts in Little Italy. Cannistraro has also edited The Italians of New York: Five Centuries of Struggle and Achievement and is coauthor of a major college textbook, The Western Perspective: A History of Civilization in the West. He is currently writing a biography of Benito Mussolini.GERALD MEYER is Professor Emeritus of History at Hostos Community College, City University of New York, and author of Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician, 1902-1954. He has also written more than 40 articles, reviews, and encyclopedia entries on subjects ranging from Italian American educator Leonard Covello, to the history of Little Italies, and aspects of the Italian American encounter with the American Left. Meyer lectures widely and is an editor of Science & Society and The Italian American Review. He is currently working on a history of the American Labor Party.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Italian American Radicalism: An Interpretive History by Philip V. Cannistraro and Gerald MeyerLaborThe Making and Un-Making of an Italian Working Class in the United States, 1915-1945, by Rudolf J. VecoliWar Among the Anarchists: The Galleanisti's Campaign Against Carlo Tresca by Nunzio PerniconeItalian Workers on the Waterfront: The New York Harbor Strikes of 1907 and 1919 by Calvin WinslowDonne Ribelli: Recovering the History of Italian Women's Radicalism in the United States by Jennifer GuglielmoFrom Working Class Radicalism to Cold-War Anti-Communism: The Case of the Italian Locals of the ILGWU by Charles ZappiaPoliticsSacco and Vanzetti's Revenge by Paul AvrichNo God, No Master: Italian Anarchists and the Individual Workers of the World by Salvatore SalernoItalian Radicals and Union Activists in San Francisco, 1900-1920, by Paola A. Sensi-IsolaniItalian Americans and the American Communist Party by Gerald MeyerFather James Groppi: The Militant Humility of a Civil Rights Activist by Jackie Di SalvoMario Savio: Resurrecting an Italian American Radical by Gil FagianiCultureThe Radical World of Ybor City, Florida by Gary R. MorminoFollow the Red Brick Road: Recovering Radical Traditions of Italian American Writers by Fred GardapheBehind the Mask: Signs Radicalism in the Work of Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni by Julia LisellaRooted to Family: Italian American Women's Radical Novels by Mary Jo BonaWhere They Come From: Italian American Women Writers as Public Intellectuals by Edvige GiuntaConclusion: Italian American Radicalism in Global Perspective by Donna R. Gabaccia