Italian American Experience in New Haven, The: Images and Oral Histories

Italian American Experience in New Haven, The: Images and Oral Histories
ISBN-10
0791481700
ISBN-13
9780791481707
Category
Social Science
Pages
474
Language
English
Published
2009-01-08
Publisher
SUNY Press
Author
Anthony V. Riccio

Description

Using interviews and photographs, Anthony Riccio provides a vital supplement to our understanding of the Italian immigrant experience in the United States. In conversations around kitchen tables and in social clubs, members of New Haven's Italian American community evoke the rhythms of the streets and the pulse of life in the old ethnic neighborhoods. They describe the events that shaped the twentieth century—the Spanish Flu pandemic, the Great Depression, and World War II—along with the private histories of immigrant women who toiled under terrible working conditions in New Haven's shirt factories, who sacrificed dreams of education and careers for the economic well-being of their families. This is a compelling social, cultural, and political history of a vibrant immigrant community.

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