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{en} Francesco Cordasco <1920-2001> - Eugene Bucchioni, eds. The Italians: Social Backgrounds of an American Group. Clifton, NJ: A.M. Kelley, 1970.

Abstract

"A singular contribution to the growing literature on the peoples of the United States ... a treasure of information ... important background information, demographic data, descriptive materials about Italian family life in all its varied aspects, materials for a comparative sociology of prejudice and intergroup conflict and cogent analyses of such phenomena as 'the black hand,' 'the mafia,' 'the padrone system,' and 'the impact of the American school on the Italian immigrant,'"--Sociology

"A valuable sourcebook ... The best writing on the subject is represented ... Of importance to many scholars in sociology, history, anthropology and other social sciences, and is of equal value to students who require the differenct perspectives this book offers. Recommended for all libraries."--Choice

"'The Italians' succeeds very well ... It provides ... most of all, an especially provocative challenge to investigate further behind the many doors for research opened ever so slyly by Cordasco and Bucchioni ... Sourcebooks that recreate periods in American life are common ... But, an anthology of sources that offers a wealth of hypotheses to be investigated by scholars from many different disciplines is not common. On the contrary, it is quite rare."--Italian Americana

Contents

I. Emigration: The exodus of a Latin people : Introduction -- Social and historical aspects of Italian emigration to America / Grazia Dore -- The coming of the Italian / Robert F. Foerster -- Italian emigration into the United States, 1901-1904 / G.E. DiPalma Castiglione -- Italy's attitude toward her immigrants / Gustavo Tosti -- The Italian immigration department in 1904 / Gino C. Speranza -- The effect of emigration on Italy : an interview with Adolphi Rossi / Gino C. Speranza -- The philanthropist-padrone / Charles B. Phipard -- The exodus of a Latin people / William E. Davenport -- What I learned by traveling from Naples to New York in steerage / Willard Price -- An Italian's advice to Italian immigrants -- Home-going Italians / Victor Von Borosini -- Italian emigrants en route : a proposed steerage reform -- II. Italian communities in America: Campanilismo in the ghetto : Introduction -- Italian life in New York / Charlotte Adams -- Italians in congested districts / Gino C. Speranza -- The associated life of the Italians in New York City -- Antonio Mangano -- The Italians in the United States / Alberto Pecorino -- The Italian in America, 1891-1914 -- Americanization / Enrico C. Sartorio -- Italian Protestantism in the United States / F. Aurelio Palmieri -- Italian immigrants and their children / Edward Corsi -- Italian East Harlem / Marie J. Concistre -- Autobiography / Leonard Covello. III. Responses to American life : Introduction -- How it feels to be a problem / Gino C. Speranza -- A transplanted birthright / Lilian Brandt -- Political representation of Italo-American colonies in the Italian parliament / Gino C. Speranza -- The Italian family in the United States / Paul J. Campisi -- Italian or American? / Irvin L. Child -- Petrosino and the Black hand / Gino C. Speranza -- The Black hand myth / Gaetano D'Amato -- The Mafia and the web of kinship -- Francis A.J. Ianni -- IV. Employment, health and social needs : Introduction -- The padrone system / Marie Lipari -- The Italian foreman as a social agent / Gino C. Speranza -- Italian immigrants and their enslavement / S. Merlino -- Italian women in industry / Louise C. Odencrantz -- Why Jennie hates flowers / Louise C. Odencrantz -- Occupational trends of Italians / John J. D'Alesandre -- Italian housing and social conditions / Emily W. Dinwiddie -- The social worker in an Italian district / Daisey H. Moseley -- Tuberculosis and the Italians / Antonio Stella -- Italians fight tuberculosis / R.L. Breed -- The south Italians : health and hospitals / Phyllis H. Williams -- V. Education: The Italian child in the American school : Introduction -- America's interest in the education of Italian children -- A high school and its immigrant community / Leonard Covello -- Aspects of the effect of the dominant American culture upon children of Italian-born parents / Joseph W. Tait -- The influence of southern Italian family mores upon the school situation in America.