Book
From steerage to suburb: Long Island Italians
Center for Migration Studies • New York • Published In 1988 • Pages:
By: LaGumina, Salvatore John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an excellent comparative study of six Long Island, New York Italian-American communities: Inwood, Port Washington, Glen Cove, Westbury, Copiague and Patchogue. Work opportunities and the Long Island Railroad drew Long lsland's first Italian-American settlers from New York City. They worked in the sand mines of Port Washington, the lace mills and shipbuilding industry of Patchogue, and in construction in the growing New York suburbs of Glen Cove and Westbury. LaGumina documents the similarities and differences among the communities with respect to their settlement patterns, work opportunities, community and institutional development, discrimination, and interethnic conflict. He is particularly good outlining their respective political development and leadership. LaGumina also examines mutual aid societies, civic associations, and parish development. One overriding incentive for families to move out of New York City was the opportunity in the suburbs for families to own their own homes and land, fulfilling an age-old objective.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Settlement patterns
- Real property
- Age stratification
- Ethnic stratification
- Classes
- Sodalities
- 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.
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1985
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880-1985
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Long Island, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Salvatore J. LaGumina
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-268) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87020842
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans