Italian American Experience in New Haven

Images and Oral Histories

AvAnthony V. Riccio

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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A compelling social history of a vibrant immigrant community, told through interviews and photographs.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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-07-01
Mått:216 x 279 x 23 mm
Vikt:1 746 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Excelsior Editions
Antal sidor:472
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791467732

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Anthony V. Riccio is Stacks Manager at the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University. He is the author of Portrait of an Italian-American Neighborhood: The North End of Boston.

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Foreword by Mary Ann McDonaldAcknowledgmentsPreface 1. Life in Italy 2. The Journey to America: Life on the Ships 3. A New Life in New Haven 4. Becoming American Citizens 5. Going to School in New Haven 6. The Spanish Flu Pandemic Strikes New Haven 7. Justice Denied: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti 8. Letters to Loved Ones 9. Fables and Proverbs 10. Farming Life in New Haven 11. Working Life Experiences 12. New Haven’s Garment Workers: Life in the Sweatshops 13. Workers Organize: The Labor Movement in New Haven14. Northerners and Southerners 15. Going Back to Italy 16. The Depression in New Haven 17. Witches, Healers and Herbs 18. Italian Feasts 19. Italian Societies 20. Sports Stories 21. Artists and Singers 22. Meat Markets, Pastry Shops, Bakeries and Pizzerias 23. Holiday Celebrations 24. Vanishing Dialects 25. Life by the Sea 26. New Haven’s Italian Americans in World War II 27. The Franklin Street Fire 28. Life in the Annex 29. Life in the Wooster Square Neighborhood 30. Life in the Hill 31. Life in the Forbes Avenue Neighborhood 32. Life in Fair Haven 33. Life in the Legion Avenue Neighborhood 34. Highways and Urban Renewal: New Haven Forever Changed NotesBibliography Afterword by Philip Langdon