Book
The Italian Americans
Twayne Publishers • New York, New York • Published In 1980 • Pages: 348
By: Iorizzo, Luciano J., Mondello, Salvatore.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the Italian American experience in the United States. The text surveys Italian immigrants and their descendants in both the urban and rural environments from the seventeenth century to ca. 1980. This study focuses on the Italian Americans of Oswego, New York. As background the authors present three chapters on Italian and Italian American history. Subsequent chapters are concerned with: Italian migrations to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; assimilation of the migrants into American society; Italian Americans as a labor force; urban communities; the ethnic press; education and the family; agriculture; the PADRONI and the PADRONI system of labor recruitment; organized crime; the role of the church in the lives of Italian Americans; fascism (ca. late 1930's to mid 1940's); and the characterization of Italian Americans in American popular culture. This document is an excellent summary on Italian Americans.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History and culture change
- External migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Ethos
- Press
- Tillage
- Vegetable production
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- Illegal entertainment
- Status, role, and prestige
- Household
- Political movements
- Education system
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- seventeenth century - ca. 1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Oswego, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Luciano J. Iorizzo and Salvatore Mondello
- For information on Italian history and background use History and Culture Change (170).
- Includes index. Bibliography: p. 325-337
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80012908
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans