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Were You Always an Italian?
Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America
Häftad, 2001
265 kr
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Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity. With "intelligence and honesty" (Arizona Republic), she writes about guidos, bimbettes, and mammoni (mama's boys in Italy); examines the …
Price of Children
Stolen Lives in a Land Without Choice
E-bok, 2024
318 kr
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The Vatican adoption scandal seen on 60 Minutes. "I was spellbound . . . one of the best books I''ve recently read" —Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge. A powerful church. An acquiescent government. In The Price of Children, investigative journalist Maria Laurino …
Old World Daughter, New World Mother
An Education in Love and Freedom
Inbunden, 2009
248 kr
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In the second-generation immigrant home where Maria Laurino grew up, “independent” was a dirty word and “sacrifice” was the ideal and reality of motherhood. But out in the world, Mary Tyler Moore was throwing her hat in the air, personifying the excitement and opportunities of the freedom loving …
Italian Americans
A History
Inbunden, 2014
306 kr
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Looking beyond the familiar Little Italys and stereotypes fostered by The Godfather and The Sopranos, Maria Laurino reveals surprising, fascinating lives: From Italian Americans working on sugar-cane plantations in Louisiana to those who were lynched in New Orleans; and the banker who helped …
