Memories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United States, 1884-Present

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

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, Christa Wirth documents a century of transatlantic migration, assimilation, and later-generation self-identification. Her research reveals how memories of migration, everyday life, and ethnicity are passed down through the generations, altered, and contested while constituting family identities. The fact that not all descendants of Italian migrants moved into the U.S. middle class, combined with their continued use of hyphenated identities, points to a history of lived ethnicity and societal exclusion. Moreover, this book demonstrates the extent of forgetting that is required in order to construct an ethnic identity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-02-26
Mått:155 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt:773 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Global Migration History
Antal sidor:406
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004284562

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Mer om författaren

Christa Wirth has taught at Harvard University and is currently teaching in the History Department at the University of Zurich. She has published articles on migration, including "Memory and Migration, Research" in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Volume IV, Immanuel Ness (ed.) (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, pp. 2158-2164).

Recensioner i media

"it is a nearly irreplaceable book for classes in research methodology, oral history, and immigration history". Susanna Garroni, in H-Net Reviews, June 2021.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements ... ixList of Figures, Maps, and Tables ... xiFamily Tree ... xiiiIntroduction ... 11 Oral History Methodology and Networks of Memory ... 482 Transnational Migration Networks: The Paese in the Rising Global Economy ... 813 Memories of Everyday Life I: Hard Work and Family Life ... 1154 Memories of Everyday Life II: Rural, Urban, and Suburban Environments ... 1605 Memories of Italianness: Pride, Prejudice, and Consumption ... 1886 Memories of Elvira and Giovanni Soloperto: In the Shadows of Memory and Dante’s Divine Comedy ... 2517 Memories of the American Dream: Migration, Assimilation, and the Homeland ... 266Conclusion ... 308Epilogue: Italian Americans as the Poster Children of the Immigrant Paradigm? ... 316Appendix ... 321Bibliography ... 357Index ... 404