Author: Charles FraggosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
The Problems of Adjustment of Second-generation Italian-Americans in the North End of Boston to the American Environment
Author: Charles FraggosReligious Festive Practices in Boston's North End
Author: Augusto FerraiuoloPublisher:
ISBN: 9781441620576
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
In this lively and accessible book, Augusto Ferraiuolo examines the many religious festivals in the Italian American community of Boston's North End. Using interviews, participant observation, and visual data, Ferraiuolo creates a vivid picture of how, over the course of a summer season, a number of religious festive practices are organized by multiple, overlapping, and, to some extent, competing voluntary organizations. The central argument that emerges is that the community uses these festivals, in part, to help maintain and establish a variety of identities, and that these identities are multistranded, complex, shifting, and negotiated--and thus ephemeral. In addition, Ferraiuolo shows in detail how individuals negotiate and construct identities as Italian Americans, Scaccianesi, Neapolitans, Catholics, and others, within the context of these celebrations. He also introduces a creative and original metaphor for understanding the ways in which selfhood is constructed, arguing that contemporary identities function as hypertext, in the manner of web-based technologies, linking to one another and building upon each other as constantly evolving "technologies of the self."
Americans in Process
Author: Robert Archey WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Americans in Process
Author: Robert Archey WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Growing Up and Growing Old in Boston's North End
Author: Anita De FelicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian American women
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Mass Media Vs. the Italian Americans
Author: Adolph CasoPublisher: Branden Books
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Some Aspects of the Effect of the Dominant American Culture Upon Children of Italian-born Parents
Author: Joseph Wilfrid TaitPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404558666
Category : Children of immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
The Italian American Table
Author: Simone CinottoPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252095014
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Best Food Book of 2014 by The Atlantic Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives of immigrants and their children. From generational conflicts resolved around the family table to a vibrant food-based economy of ethnic producers, importers, and restaurateurs, food was essential to the creation of an Italian American identity. Italian American foods offered not only sustenance but also powerful narratives of community and difference, tradition and innovation as immigrants made their way through a city divided by class conflict, ethnic hostility, and racialized inequalities. Drawing on a vast array of resources including fascinating, rarely explored primary documents and fresh approaches in the study of consumer culture, Cinotto argues that Italian immigrants created a distinctive culture of food as a symbolic response to the needs of immigrant life, from the struggle for personal and group identity to the pursuit of social and economic power. Adding a transnational dimension to the study of Italian American foodways, Cinotto recasts Italian American food culture as an American "invention" resonant with traces of tradition.
Remaking Boston: An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings
Author: The Image of the City
Author: Kevin LynchPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262620017
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.