Ethnic Alienation: the Italian-Americans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ethnic Alienation: the Italian-Americans write by Patrick J. Gallo. This book was released on 1974. Ethnic Alienation: the Italian-Americans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This timely and ground-breaking study of the political behavior of three generations of Italian-Americans deals with a fundamental issue in American society: Does the political system tend to exclude certain groups from sharing political power?
Old Bread, New Wine
Old Bread, New Wine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Bread, New Wine write by Patrick J. Gallo. This book was released on 1981. Old Bread, New Wine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Italian American
Italian American - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Italian American write by David A.J. Richards. This book was released on 1999-07-01. Italian American available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black. The first study of its kind, Italian American explores the acculturation process of Italian immigrants in terms of then-current patterns of European and American racism. Delving into the political and legal context of flawed liberal nationalism both in Italy (the Risorgimento) and the United States (Reconstruction Amendments), Richards examines why Italian Americans were so reluctant to influence depictions of themselves and their own collective identity. He argues that American racism could not have had the durability or political power it has had either in the popular understanding or in the corruption of constitutional ideals unless many new immigrants, themselves often regarded as racially inferior, had been drawn into accepting and supporting many of the terms of American racism. With its unprecedented focus on Italian American identity and an interdisciplinary approach to comparative culture and law, this timely study sheds important light on the history and contemporary importance of identity and multicultural politics in American political and constitutional debate.
The Italian American Family
The Italian American Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Italian American Family write by Lydio F. Tomasi. This book was released on 1972. The Italian American Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author discusses the acculturation process of first, second, and third generation Italian families in the United States in terms of the interrelationships among cultural, social, and psychological events. As background to the discussion, the role of the family is described. In southern Italy, the nuclear family is the essential feature of the social system. It is dominated by an authoritarian father, godparents are very significant figures, male children are social and economic assets, and female children are protected socially. Family relationships give the individual status and a guarantee of security. Upon immigration to America, however, Italian values conflict with Anglo-American orientations toward individualism and mastery over nature. Alienation and other psychological crises arise because of the immigrants' familistic personality orientation. In first-generation families, intercultural and intergenerational conflict and changes occur, often marked by isolation and anomie. Most second-generation families exhibit a move toward shaping the structure and functions of the family in accordance with the contemporary urban American type of family. Third-generation families show even more influence of industrialization and urbanization on fertility, child rearing, class status, and occupational choice. (Av).
Sense of Origins
Sense of Origins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sense of Origins write by Rosemary Serra. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Sense of Origins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Sense of Origins, Rosemary Serra explores the lives of a significant group of self-identified young Italian Americans residing in New York City and its surrounding areas. The book presents and examines the results of a survey she conducted of their values, family relationships, prejudices and stereotypes, affiliations, attitudes and behaviors, and future perspectives of Italian American culture. The core of the study focuses on self-identification with Italian cultural heritage and analyzes it according to five aspects—physical, personality, cultural, psychological, and emotional/affective. The data provides insights into today's young Italian Americans and the ways their perception of reality in everyday interactions is affected by their heritage, while shedding light on the value and symbolic references that come with an Italian heritage. Through her rendering of relevant facets that emerge from the study, Serra constructs interpretative models useful for outlining the physiognomy and characterization of second, third, fourth, and fifth generations of Italian Americans. In the current climate, questions of ethnicity and migrant identity around the world make Sense of Origins useful not only to the Italian American community but also to the descendants of the innumerable present-day migrants who find themselves living in countries different from those of their ancestors. The book will resonate in future explorations of ethnic identity in the United States.
