essay
Italian Americans in the year 2000: the impact of education
melting pot and beyond : Italian Americans in the year 2000 • Staten Island, New York • Published In 1987 • Pages: 137-149
By: Egelman, William.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The focus of this study is on changes in levels of educational attainment of Italian Americans from the arrival of the first immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to ca. 1987. Using government census data, the author analyzes why such changes have occurred and what impact these changes have had on Italian American identity (p. 137). As the result of his analysis Egelman notes five critical factors which contribute to change: (1) assimilation of third or fourth generation Italian Americans into American society has been easier than it had been for their first generation immigrant forebears; (2) child labor is no longer necessary to maintain the family financially; (3) Italian American values and attitudes toward education have changed; (4) prejudice and discrimination against Italians in the educational system have changed; and (5) the changing attitudes of Italian Americans to women's roles in the society have made it easier for women to obtain an education.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Composition of population
- External migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Ethos
- Education system
- Elementary education
- Liberal arts education
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- 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
- late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to ca. 1987
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Willaim Egelman
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans