Routledge History of Italian Americans

William J. Connell is Professor and LaMotta Chair of History at Seton Hall University.Stanislao G. Pugliese is Professor of modern European history and the Queensboro UNICO Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University.

Winner of the Italy-USA Fulbright Commission’s 75th anniversary prize"A marvelous history of people fundamental to the American mosaic, a history that is thoughtful, honest, passionate, and right for our times. The Routledge History of Italian Americans traces Italian immigrants from a newly unified nation that could not hold its people to thoroughly integrated Americans at all levels of society. It’s essential for understanding Americans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University and author of The History of White People "Wide-ranging, with chapters that cover 500 years of history while addressing everything from politics, economy, culture, race, class, and gender to work, radicalism, religion, residence and everyday life, The Routledge History of Italian Americans belongs on the shelf of every scholar of Italian America and in every library serving Italian-Americans. Specialists will find enough of the latest research, written by prominent scholars, to satisfy their very specific needs while newcomers to the topic can gain from the contributors’ obvious awareness of the needs of general readers in search of ‘the big picture.’ "Donna Gabaccia, University of Toronto and author of Italy's Many Diasporas "The Routledge History of ltalian Americans is an important guide to Italian American life, identity, and culture for a new millennium."Maddalena Marinari, Gustavus Adolphus College

• Introduction:A New History for a New Millennium William J. Connell Part I - Explorations and Foundations1) Italians in the Early Atlantic World William J. Connell 2) From the Pilgrim Fathers to the Founding Fathers: Italy and AmericaEdoardo Tortarolo 3) When They Were Few: Italians in America, 1800-1850John Paul Russo 4) America’s Garibaldi: The United States and Italian UnificationDon H. Doyle 5) Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in Nineteenth-Century AmericaDennis LooneyPart II - The Great Migration and Creating Little Italies6) Why Italians Left Italy: The Physics and Politics of Migration, 1870-1920Maddalena Tirabassi 7) The Silence of the Atlantians: Contact, Conflict, Consolidation (1880-1913)Peter Carravetta 8) The Little Italies of the Early 1900s: From the Reports of Amy Bernardy Maddalena Tirabassi 9) Interpreting Little Italies: Ethnicity as an Accident of GeographyMaria Susanna Garroni 10) Culture and Identity on the Table: Italian American Food as Social HistorySimone Cinotto11) Italian Americans and Their Religious ExperienceRichard N. Juliani 12) Italian Americans and Race During the Era of Mass ImmigrationPeter G. Vellon 13) Discrimination, Prejudice and Italian American HistorySalvatore J. LaGumina 14) The Languages of Italian AmericansNancy C. Carnevale 15) Italian American Book Publishing and Book Selling James J. Periconi 16) From Margins to Vanguard to Mainstream: Italian Americans and the Labor MovementMarcella Bencivenni 17) The Sacco and Vanzetti Case and the Psychology of Political ViolenceMichael Topp 18) A Diary in America and a Death in Rome Francesco DurantePart III - Becoming American and Contesting America19) The Bumpy Road Toward Political Incorporation, 1920-1984Stefano Luconi 20) Italian Emigration, Remittances, and the Rise of Made-in-ItalyMark I. Choate 21) Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Italian AmericaStanislao G. Pugliese 22) World War II Changed EverythingDominic Candeloro 23) Mothers and Daughters in Italian American NarrativesMary Jo Bona 24) The Italian American Family and Transnational CircuitsJoAnne Ruvoli 25) Groovin’: A Riff on Italian Americans in Popular Music and JazzJohn Gennari26) Italian Americans and the CinemaGiuliana Muscio 27) Italian Americans and TelevisionAnthony Julian Tamburri 28) Italian Americans in SportLawrence Baldassaro 29) Organized Crime and Italian AmericansAntonio NicasoPart IV - Postwar to Post-Ethnic?30) Italian Americans and AssimilationRichard Alba 31) Italian Americans in the Suburbs: Transplanting Ethnicity to the Crabgrass FrontierDonald Tricarico 32) "What Ever Happened to Little Italy?"Jerome Krase 33) Italian American FemininitiesIlaria Serra34) Italian American MasculinitiesFred Gardaphé 35) Fuori per sempre: The Coming Out of Gay and Lesbian Italian AmericansGeorge De Stefano 36) Immigration from Italy since the 1990sTeresa Fiore 37) Contemporary Italian American IdentitiesRosemary Serra38) The Orphanage: Encounters in Transnational SpaceRobert Viscusi Conclusion: The Future of Our Past Stanislao G. Pugliese