Book
Monte Carmelo: an Italian-American community in the Bronx
Gordon and Breach • New York • Published In 1988 • Pages: xxiii, 160
By: LaRuffa, Anthony L..
Abstract
This is a study of the ethnic enclave named Monte Carmelo, the 'Little Italy of the Bronx.' Monte Carmelo was settled in the 1890s by Italian-Americans moving out of Manhattan's Lower East Side and the city's other immigrant ghettos. At the same time, the neighborhood received thousands of immigrants from Italy, who were part of the huge wave of Southern and Eastern Europe immigration of that period. The strength of the book is LaRuffa's analysis of merchant and broad-based associations which served to maintain the ethnic character of the neighborhood even after many Italian-Americans began to move out in the 1960s and were replaced by members of other ethnic groups. Monte Carmelo became an ethnic Mecca for a more disparate Italian-American community. The book's weakness lies in its many verbatim and repetitive life stories.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ;1999
- Field Date
- 1982-1986
- Coverage Date
- 1890-1986
- Coverage Place
- Monte Carmelo, New York, N.Y., United States
- Notes
- by Anthony L. LaRuffa
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-151) and index
- LCCN
- 87035520
- LCSH
- Italian Americans