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From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia
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From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia Hardback - 2001

by Stefano Luconi

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Examines the transformations of Italian American ethnic identity in twentieth-century Philadelphia.

From Paesani to White Ethnics analyzes the process by which people of Italian descent renegotiated their sense of community and ethnic self-perception in Philadelphia from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. At the turn of the century, Italian immigrants who arrived in Philadelphia originally formed allegiances and social clusters based on their localistic, provincial, or regional ties. By the late 1930s, however, the emergence of Italian nationalism together with the end of mass immigration from Italy and the appearance of an American-born second generation of individuals with loose ties to the land of their parents contributed to bring together Italian Americans from disparate local backgrounds and helped them to develop a common national identity that they had lacked upon arrival in the United States. Luconi explains how Italian Americans continued to distance themselves from other European minorities throughout the early postwar years until ethnic defensiveness against the alleged encroachments of African Americans as well as racial tensions over housing forced them to extend the boundaries of their ethnic identity in the 1960s and to redefine it within the broader context of the white ethnic movement. This process climaxed as Philadelphia polarized along racial lines on issues such as public education and crime in the late 1960s and a

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  • Title From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia
  • Author Stefano Luconi
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 274
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Publication date 2001-03
  • ISBN 9780791448571 / 0791448576
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Philadelphia (Pa.) - Social conditions -, Philadelphia (Pa.) - Ethnic relations
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00057330
  • Dewey Decimal Code 974.811

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Stefano Luconi is Adjunct Professor of History of North America at the University of Florence, Italy.

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