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Italian Immigrant Radical Culture
·\"An important contribution to the history of the Italian-American left.\" - Fraser Ottanelli, Professor of History, University of South Florida
·\"A welcome introduction to the poorly understood immigrantsovversivi.\" - Donna Gabaccia, University of Minnesota
·\"A superb analysis of radical working-class poetry, drama, and art.\" - Nunzio Pernicone, author ofItalian Anarchism, 1864-1892
·\"Anyone interested in the topic will benefit from Bencivenni's deep understanding of her subject, her exhaustive research, and her clear organization and writing.\" - R.J. Goldstein,Choice
·\"An impressive book that nicely complements existing studies… It deserves a wide audience.\" - Mike Rosenow,H-Net Reviews
·\"Bencivenni's superb analysis… ensure[s] that the works of these men and women will have a lasting legacy.\" - Diane C. Vecchio, Furman University
·\"A great book that will benefit well-established scholars, newly minted Ph.D.'s, and graduate students.\" - Caroline Merithew,Italian American Review
·\"Sheds illuminating light on a part of that history that is often overlooked.\" - Stefan Bosworth
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Soft Soil, Black Grapes
Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in
Scholarly/Professional Book Design From Ernest and Julio
Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians have shaped the history of
California wine. More than any other group, Italian immigrants and
their families have made California viticulture one of America's
most distinctive and vibrant achievements, from boutique vineyards
in the Sonoma hills to the massive industrial wineries of the
Central Valley. But how did a small group of nineteenth-century
immigrants plant the roots that flourished into a world-class
industry? Was there something particularly \"Italian\" in their
success? In this fresh, fascinating account of the ethnic origins
of California wine, Simone Cinotto rewrites a century-old
triumphalist story. He demonstrates that these Italian visionaries
were not skilled winemakers transplanting an immemorial
agricultural tradition, even if California did resemble the rolling
Italian countryside of their native Piedmont. Instead, Cinotto
argues that it was the wine-makers' access to \"social capital,\" or
the ethnic and familial ties that bound them to their rich
wine-growing heritage, and not financial leverage or direct
enological experience, that enabled them to develop such a
successful and influential wine business. Focusing on some of the
most important names in wine history-particularly Pietro Carlo
Rossi, Secondo Guasti, and the Gallos-he chronicles a story driven
by ambition and creativity but realized in a complicated tangle of
immigrant entrepreneurship, class struggle, racial inequality, and
a new world of consumer culture. Skillfully blending regional,
social, and immigration history, Soft Soil, Black Grapes takes us
on an original journey into the cultural construction of ethnic
economies and markets, the social dynamics of American race, and
the fully transnational history of American wine.
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Italoamericana
To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with extraordinary skill, Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of classic writings on, about, and from the formative years of the Italian-American experience. Originally published in Italian, this landmark collection of translated writings establishes a rich, diverse, and mature sense of Italian-American life by allowing readers to see American society through the eyes of Italian-speaking immigrants. Filled with the voices from the first generation of Italian-American life, the book presents a unique treasury of long-inaccessible writing that embodies a literary canon for Italian-American culture--poetry, drama, journalism, political advocacy, history, memoir, biography, and story--the greater part of which has never before been translated. Italoamericana introduces a new generation of readers to the \"Black Hand\" and the organized crime of the 1920s, the incredible \"pulp\" novels by Bernardino Ciambelli, Paolo Pallavicini, Italo Stanco, Corrado Altavilla, the exhilarating \"macchiette\" by Eduardo Migliaccio (Farfariello) and Tony Ferrazzano, the comedies by Giovanni De Rosalia, Riccardo Cordiferro's dramas and poems, the poetry of Fanny Vanzi-Mussini and Eduardo Migliaccio. Edited by a leading journalist and scholar, Italoamericana introduces an important but little-known, largely inaccessible Italian-language literary heritage that defined the Italian-American experience. Organized into five sections--\"Annals of the Great Exodus,\" \"Colonial Chronicles,\" \"On Stage (and Off-Stage),\" \"Anarchists, Socialist, Fascists, Anti-Fascists,\" and \"Apocalyptic Integrated / Integrated Apocalyptic Intellectuals\"--the volume distinguishes a literary, cultural, and intellectual history that engages the reader in all sorts of archaeological and genealogical work.
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A great conspiracy against our race : Italian immigrant newspapers and the construction of whiteness in the early twentieth century
\"Racial history has always been the thorn in America's side, with a swath of injustices--slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills--perpetrated against Black people. This very history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in this country. Many of the European immigrant groups now considered white have also had to struggle with their own racial consciousness. In A Great Conspiracy against Our Race, Peter Vellon explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and 'swarthy' race, assimilated into dominant white culture through the influential national and radical Italian language press in New York City. Examining the press as a cultural production of the Italian immigrant community, this book investigates how this immigrant press constructed race, class, and identity from 1886 through 1920. Their frequent coverage of racially charged events of the time, as well as other topics such as capitalism and religion, reveals how these papers constructed a racial identity as Italian, American, and white. A Great Conspiracy against Our Race vividly illustrates how the immigrant press was a site where socially constructed categories of race, color, civilization, and identity were reworked, created, contested, and negotiated. Vellon also uncovers how Italian immigrants filtered societal pressures and redefined the parameters of whiteness, constructing their own identity. This work is an important contribution to not only Italian American history, but America's history of immigration and race\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Memories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United Sates, 1884-Present
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.
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Facing toward the dawn : the Italian anarchists of New London
\"Facing toward the Dawn is a history of the Italian American anarchist movement that existed in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood of New London, Connecticut, for seventy years. The Italian American radical movement thrived into the 1920s in industrial cities throughout the country. Connecticut possessed a vibrant movement, and New London's anarchists stood at the forefront of this activity. Based upon immigrants from the Marche region of Italy, especially the city of Fano, the Fort Trumbull anarchist groups maintained a strong, stable presence in the neighborhood for decades. Beginning as a circle within the ideological camp of Errico Malatesta, the New London Marchegian anarchists evolved into one of the core groupings within the wing of the movement supporting Luigi Galleani. They conducted manifold activities, from propaganda to involvement in the labor movement, fought fascists in the streets, held countless social events such as festas, theatrical performances, picnics and dances, and hosted militant speakers such as Emma Goldman. Above all, they established what could be called a \"solidarity\" subculture upon which the longevity of their group was based. This study is a micro-history of an ethnic radical group in a New England city during the heyday of labor radicalism in the United States, and written in the context of developing trends within the larger radical movement, the Italian American community, and greater American society as it moved from the Gilded Age to the New Deal and beyond\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Re-reading Italian Americana
This book is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the general situation of Italian/American literature and its reception both in the United States and in Italy. It also discusses other social and cultural issues that pertain to Italian Americana. Section two consists of six chapters, each discussing a specific author; three dedicated to prose (Pietro di Donato, Mario Puzo, Luigi Barzini), three dedicated to poetry (Joseph Tusiani, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Rina Ferrarelli). Section three examines the current state of criticism dedicated to Italian/American literature, the second part focusing in on a number of specific works.
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