essay
The park and the Italians
social order of the slum : ethnicity and territory in the inner city, by Gerald D. Suttles • Chicago • Published In 1968 • Pages: 99-118
By: Suttles, Gerald D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the Italian Americans occupying the 'Addams Area' (a pseudonym) in the Near West Side of Chicago. Although there is some data in this paper on the character of the Italian American, on specific individuals representing particular status roles in the society, organized crime, relations with other ethnic groups, world view, and concepts of ethics and ethnicity, the major portion of this work deals with local forms of social organization known as social-athletic clubs (SACs) and street corner groups. These groups, which are age-graded, range from adult to the youngest adolescent clubs. The author discusses the relationship of each club to one another and their relative location in Chicago's Sheridan Park. Suttles also describes a Mexican street corner group located in the park (the Barracuda club), and its relationship to the Italian American groups located there.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Ethos
- Recreational facilities
- Illegal entertainment
- Status, role, and prestige
- Age stratification
- Sodalities
- Ethnopsychology
- Ethnosociology
- Adolescent activities
- 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.
- Sociologist
- 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.
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chicago, Ill., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Gerald D. Suttles
- Includes bibliography
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 68026762
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans