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Hopelessly Alien
2024
Overview
Hopelessly Alien is an in-depth study of Italian
immigration to Chicago Heights, Illinois, between 1910 and 1950.
Drawing upon oral histories, interviews, historical documents, and
census materials, Louis Corsino examines the critical concept of
hope , which most immigration studies have cast in
privatized, psychological terms as the motivation to emigrate in
search of a better life. This investigation offers a more
contentious, sociological perspective, depicting hope as both an
ideological lure to recruit and manage the \"foreign element\" and as
a resource immigrants employed to purchase acceptance and avoid a
disparaging label as a \"hopelessly alien\" stranger. These
dialectical processes are illustrated through the Italian
immigrants' pursuit of occupational mobility and homeownership, and
the appropriation of their children's hopes. Each became forms of
cultural capital that demonstrated a public commitment to the
American ethos of \"joyful striving.\" Each provided measures of
success, but these individual pursuits came at the expense of
upsetting the necessary tension between individual and communal
hopes.
Publisher
SUNY Press,State University of New York Press
Subject
/ American Studies : Italian/American Studies
/ Factors affecting social behavior
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
/ HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
/ History : Social & Cultural History
/ Illinois
/ Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / European American Studies
ISBN
1438497636, 9781438497631, 143849761X, 9781438497617, 1438497644, 9781438497648
