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..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Cultural identity and pride
- Settlement patterns
- Mercantile business
- Retail marketing
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Private welfare agencies
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ;1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1982-1986
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1890-1986
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Monte Carmelo, New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Anthony L. LaRuffa
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-151) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87035520
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans