The Social Background of the Italo-American School Child
Author: Leonard H. Covello
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13:
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Vito Marcantonio
Author: Gerald Meyer
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1989-09-11
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1438412924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first study to fully explore Marcantonio's unique status as a radical politician who, despite massive opposition, held high public office for fourteen years. As congressional representative to Harlem, he became the leader of the most important third party in the United States, the American Labor Party, and achieved national stature as a spokesman for the left. The book demonstrates Marcantonio's transcendence of a number of American truisms. Meyer explores the efficiency of Marcantonio's political machine, the unusual alliance of his two major political bases (East Harlem and El Barrio), and his open relationship with the Communist Party.
Hopelessly Alien
Author: Louis Corsino
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2024-05-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1438497636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHopelessly 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 Drawing upon oral histories, interviews, historical documents, and census materials, Louis Corsino examines the critical concept of hope, which most immigration studies have cast in privatized, psychological terms as the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.
Strangers at the Gates
Author: Sidney Tarrow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-26
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1107009383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains the products of work carried out over four decades of research in Italy, France, and the United States, and in the intellectual territory between social movements, comparative politics, and historical sociology. Using a variety of methods ranging from statistical analysis to historical case studies to linguistic analysis, the book centers on historical catalogs of protest events and cycles of collective action. Sidney Tarrow places social movements in the broader arena of contentious politics, in relation to states, political parties, and other actors. From peasants and communists in 1960s Italy, to movements and politics in contemporary western polities, to the global justice movement in the new century, the book argues that contentious actors are neither outside of nor completely within politics, but rather they occupy the uncertain territory between total opposition and integration into policy.
American Ethnic Groups, the European Heritage
Author: Francesco Cordasco
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780810814059
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Between Anthropology and Literature
Author: Rose De Angelis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-08-27
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1134446144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection suggests that the disciplines of literature and anthropology are not static entities but instead fluid sites of shifting cultural currents and academic interests. The essays conclude that the origins, sources, and intersections of the two disciplines are constantly being revised, and reconceived, leading to new possibilities of understanding texts. The authors address the ways in which the language of social science fuses with that of the literary imagination. The essays fit excellently with the current interest in interdisciplinary studies and challenge students to see texts as parts of a larger global and cultural matrix.
The New Transnational Activism
Author: Sidney Tarrow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-08
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521851305
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From Home to Hospital
Author: Angela Danzi
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780761809111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmploying seventy-eight in-depth interviews with Italian and Jewish American women, this study presents the subjective voices of women caught up in an important social change: the pre-1940 transformation of childbirth. Italian women were more varied in their choices--some were more likely to prefer home birth with a midwife, while others used a hospital clinic or private physician. A significant number moved from home to hospital over their birth careers, while nearly all Jewish women selected physician-assisted hospital birth. These differences are explained by looking at the structure and context of women's family and friendship networks and their personal links to varying childbirth caretakers.
Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York
Author: Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781566398886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this work, 19 scholars from a range of disciplines discuss New York's immigrant communities. They explore the interaction between economic globalization and transnationalization, demographic change, and the evolving racial, ethnic and gender dynamics in the city.
Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development
Author: Gwendolyn Mink
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-06-30
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1501742698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy have American politics developed differently from politics in Europe? Generations of scholars and commentators have wondered why organized labor in the United States did not acquire a broad-based constituency or form an autonomous labor party. In this innovative and insightful book, Gwendolyn Mink finds new answers by approaching this question from a different angle: she asks what determined union labor's political interests and how those interests influenced the political role forged by the American Federation of Labor. At bottom, Mink argues, the demographic dynamics of industrialization produced a profound racial response to economic change among organized labor. This response shaped the AFL's political strategy and political choices. In her account of the unique role played by labor in politics prior to the New Deal, Mink focuses on the ways in which the organizational and political interests of the AFL were mediated by the national issue of immigration and links the AFL's response to immigration to its conservative stance in and toward politics. She investigates the political impact of a labor market split between union and nonunion, old and new immigrant workers; of dramatic demographic change; and of nativism and racism. Mink then elucidates the development of trade-union political interests, ideology, and strategy; the movement of the AFL into established state and party structures; and the consequent separation of the AFL from labor's social base.
