Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our historical studies. Until now. In this new collection, Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra edit essays by an elite roster of scholars in Italian American studies. These interdisciplinary works focus on leading edge topics that range from politics of the McCarren-Walter Act and its effects on women to the ways Italian Americans mobilized against immigration restrictions. Other essays unwrap the inner workings of multi-ethnic power brokers in a Queens community, portray the complex transformation of identity in Boston's North End, and trace the development of Italian American youth culture and how new arrivals fit into it. Finally, Donna Gabaccia pens an afterword on the importance of this seventy-year period in U.S. migration history.

Contributors: Ottorino Cappelli, Donna Gabaccia, Stefano Luconi, Maddalena Marinari, James S. Pasto, Rodrigo Praino, Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra, Donald Tricarico, and Elizabeth Zanoni.

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Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Year

2017

ISBN

9780252099496

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Sociology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Real Italians, New Immigrants
1 Italy, Italian Americans, and the Politics of the McCarran-Walter Act
2 “In the name of God … and in the interest of our country”: The Cold War, Foreign Policy, and Italian Americans’ Mobilization against Immigration Restriction
3 “A Wife in Waiting”: Women and the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act in Il Progresso Italo-Americano Advice Columns
4 Immigrants and Ethnics: Post–World War II Italian Immigration and Boston’s North End (1945–2016)
5 New Second-Generation Youth Culture in the Twilight of Italian American Ethnicity
6 The Kingmakers of Fresh Pond Road: Ethnic-Political Brokers in an Italian American Community
Afterword
Contributors
Index