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Book Italian Immigrants  1880 1920

Download or read book Italian Immigrants 1880 1920 written by Anne M. Todd and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the reasons Italian people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.

Book The Italian Immigrant in Urban America  1880 1920  as Reported in the Contemporary Periodical Press

Download or read book The Italian Immigrant in Urban America 1880 1920 as Reported in the Contemporary Periodical Press written by Salvatore Mondello and published by Ayer Publishing. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Family and Community

Download or read book Family and Community written by Virginia Yans-McLaughlin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vividly human presentation of the Italian migration to America. Real people appear here, with ordeals and hopes, successes and failures, in all of the circumstances envisioned by the marriage vows. Unions, churches, the rackets, the press, even ideals and ideologies come into focus on this meticulously comprehensive canvas.''--The New Republic ''Yans-McLaughlin has demonstrated effectively that Buffalo's Italian families did not disintegrate or experience major transforamatios under the pressure of immigration and life in a radically different environment. . . . points the way for further significant study of immigrant families.''-John Briggs, International Migration Review ''Methodologically speaking, Yans-McLaughlin's most important conclusion is that quantification is not enough. Statistics, she insists, can give us only the form of group structures; they do not assist the historian in penetrating to the cultural content of those structures. . . . Her book's great strength is its intelligent and painstaking analysis of the key institution of the family among Italian immigrants.''--New York Historical Society Quarterly.

Book The Heart of the Family  Italian Immigrant Women in Mining Communities  1880 1920

Download or read book The Heart of the Family Italian Immigrant Women in Mining Communities 1880 1920 written by Phylis Cancilla Martinelli and published by Mill City Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2022-12-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the lives of immigrant women from Northern Italy leaving poverty and oppression in their native country. Most readers are unaware that Southern Italians dominate the literature on the Italian American experience. Although Northern Italians were the first to leave Italy around the time of unification, their food and culture is often overlooked. It is the tsunami of Southern Italians, fleeing miseria that portrayed a group of immigrants for the American people. Accounts of women's lives are based on oral histories and other research in both coal and coper mining camps. The reader will see the difficulties women faced and how they were the emotional heart of their families. Another aspect of the book is how labor unions were able to improve living for miners against the resistance of owners. Certainly, these early Italians were not greeted with open arms and had to survive prejudice and discrimination that they and their children faced. Phylis Cancilla Martinelli, PhD in sociology and now a Professor Emerita. She is a third generation native of San Francisco, California. Phylis retired from teaching sociology at St. Mary's College, Moraga California. Being the first in her family to go to college impacted Phylis and her career. Phylis's main focus currently is research on ethnic history. This interest grew out of her own background as the grandchild of immigrants from Italy. It wasn't until she was in graduate school she realized she knew nothing about the history of Italy, a nonindustrial nation according to Marx, where her family came from. Phylis' interest in the history of immigrant groups was heightened by a newly formed Italian American Historical Association. It was only when she moved to Arizona that she became interested in the mining experience of Italian Americans.

Book The Reluctant Migrants

Download or read book The Reluctant Migrants written by Teresa Fava Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Undermining Race

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  • Author : Phylis Cancilla Martinelli
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2015-10-19
  • ISBN : 0816533032
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Undermining Race written by Phylis Cancilla Martinelli and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undermining Race rewrites the history of race, immigration, and labor in the copper industry in Arizona. The book focuses on the case of Italian immigrants in their relationships with Anglo, Mexican, and Spanish miners (and at times with blacks, Asian Americans, and Native Americans), requiring a reinterpretation of the way race was formed and figured across place and time. Phylis Martinelli argues that the case of Italians in Arizona provides insight into “in between” racial and ethnic categories, demonstrating that the categorizing of Italians varied from camp to camp depending on local conditions—such as management practices in structuring labor markets and workers’ housing, and the choices made by immigrants in forging communities of language and mutual support. Italians—even light-skinned northern Italians—were not considered completely “white” in Arizona at this historical moment, yet neither were they consistently racialized as non-white, and tactics used to control them ranged from micro to macro level violence. To make her argument, Martinelli looks closely at two “white camps” in Globe and Bisbee and at the Mexican camp of Clifton-Morenci. Comparing and contrasting the placement of Italians in these three camps shows how the usual binary system of race relations became complicated, which in turn affected the existing race-based labor hierarchy, especially during strikes. The book provides additional case studies to argue that the biracial stratification system in the United States was in fact triracial at times. According to Martinelli, this system determined the nature of the associations among laborers as well as the way Americans came to construct “whiteness.”

Book From Sicily to Elizabeth Street

Download or read book From Sicily to Elizabeth Street written by Donna R. Gabaccia and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many immigrants, the move from Sicily to a New York tenement was accompanied by rapid, significant, and often surprisingly satisfactory changes in a wide variety of social relationships. Many of these changes can be traced to the influence of a changing housing environment.

Book The New Americans  Portraits of an Italian American Family

Download or read book The New Americans Portraits of an Italian American Family written by Louis J. Palazzi Jr and published by Avventura Press. This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work will attempt to offer a fresh perspective on Italian immigration from a family whose origins were predominantly northern. It will, hopefully, explain the events of their lives, in their views, which are unique and vastly different from today's perspectives. They now have all passed away, and with most of them, the stories, perspectives of time and events, and history of what they had to endure to become Americans. The last one in the author's family, Rosa Uguccioni Palazzi, died in 1985 at the very old age of almost ninety-five. This work will focus on the generation of U.S. citizens who were immigrants of the New Immigration, 1880-1920, and hence the first true New Americans.

Book From Immigration to Integration

Download or read book From Immigration to Integration written by Ivanics Eszter and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Some Aspects of Italian Immigration to the United States

Download or read book Some Aspects of Italian Immigration to the United States written by Antonio Stella and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Passage

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  • Author : Vincent J. Cannato
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-06-09
  • ISBN : 0060742739
  • Pages : 501 pages

Download or read book American Passage written by Vincent J. Cannato and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's heyday—from 1892 to 1924—coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world has ever seen, with some twelve million immigrants inspected at its gates. In American Passage, Vincent J. Cannato masterfully illuminates the story of Ellis Island from the days when it hosted pirate hangings witnessed by thousands of New Yorkers in the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century when massive migrations sparked fierce debate and hopeful new immigrants often encountered corruption, harsh conditions, and political scheming. American Passage captures a time and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history, and articulates the dramatic and bittersweet accounts of the immigrants, officials, interpreters, and social reformers who all play an important role in Ellis Island's chronicle. Cannato traces the politics, prejudices, and ideologies that surrounded the great immigration debate, to the shift from immigration to detention of aliens during World War II and the Cold War, all the way to the rebirth of the island as a national monument. Long after Ellis Island ceased to be the nation's preeminent immigrant inspection station, the debates that once swirled around it are still relevant to Americans a century later. In this sweeping, often heart-wrenching epic, Cannato reveals that the history of Ellis Island is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American.

Book Imagining Italians

Download or read book Imagining Italians written by Joseph P. Cosco and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2003-08-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores changes in American attitudes toward Italy and Italians during a crucial period of U.S. immigration history.

Book The Italian Immigrant Experience

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  • Author : Canadian Italian Historical Association
  • Publisher : Thunder Bay, Ont. : Canadian Italian Historical Association
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book The Italian Immigrant Experience written by Canadian Italian Historical Association and published by Thunder Bay, Ont. : Canadian Italian Historical Association. This book was released on 1988 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Family and Community

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  • Author : Virginia Yans-Mac Laughlin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Family and Community written by Virginia Yans-Mac Laughlin and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Italians to America  January 1880 December 1884

Download or read book Italians to America January 1880 December 1884 written by Ira A. Glazier and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italians to America is the first indexed reference work devoted to Italian immigrants to the United States. This series contains passenger list information in chronological order on the first major wave of Italian migration during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. As with the highly regarded companion series on German immigrants, Italians to America presents the passenger lists in chronological order, including information on each person's age, sex, occupation, village of origin, and destination, plus the name of the ship, the port of embarkation and the date of arrival. Each volume also contains an introduction on the history of Italian migration to the U.S. and a full name index, greatly simplifying the researcher's job.