04151nam 2200757 450 991082106040332120240109020301.090-04-28457-510.1163/9789004284579(CKB)3710000000353083(EBL)1981289(OCoLC)904398305(SSID)ssj0001438364(PQKBManifestationID)11864185(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001438364(PQKBWorkID)11377472(PQKB)10583629(MiAaPQ)EBC1981289(OCoLC)893452212(nllekb)BRILL9789004284579(Au-PeEL)EBL1981289(CaPaEBR)ebr11028474(CaONFJC)MIL741185(EXLCZ)99371000000035308320150313h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMemories of belonging descendants of Italian migrants to the United States, 1884-present /by Christa WirthLeiden, Netherlands ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :Brill,2015.©20151 online resource (420 p.)Studies in Global Social History,1874-6705 ;Volume 17Studies in Global Migration History ;Volume 5Description based upon print version of record.90-04-28456-7 1-336-09899-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Oral History Methodology and Networks of Memory -- Transnational Migration Networks: The Paese in the Rising Global Economy -- Memories of Everyday Life I: Hard Work and Family Life -- Memories of Everyday Life II: Rural, Urban, and Suburban Environments -- Memories of Italianness: Pride, Prejudice, and Consumption -- Memories of Elvira and Giovanni Soloperto: In the Shadows of Memory and Dantes Divine Comedy -- Memories of the American Dream: Migration, Assimilation, and the Homeland -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Italian Americans as the Poster Children of the Immigrant Paradigm? -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.Memories of Belonging is a three-generation oral-history study of the offspring of southern Italians who migrated to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1913. Supplemented with the interviewees’ private documents and working from U.S. and Italian archives, Christa Wirth documents a century of transatlantic migration, assimilation, and later-generation self-identification. Her research reveals how memories of migration, everyday life, and ethnicity are passed down through the generations, altered, and contested while constituting family identities. The fact that not all descendants of Italian migrants moved into the U.S. middle class, combined with their continued use of hyphenated identities, points to a history of lived ethnicity and societal exclusion. Moreover, this book demonstrates the extent of forgetting that is required in order to construct an ethnic identity.Studies in global social history ;Volume 17.Studies in global migration history ;Volume 5.Italian AmericansMassachusettsWorcesterHistoryItalian AmericansMassachusettsWorcesterHistorySourcesItalian AmericansMassachusettsWorcesterHistoryInterviewsItalian AmericansEthnic identityItalian AmericansHistoryUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationHistoryItalyEmigration and immigrationHistoryWorcester (Mass.)Ethnic relationsItalian AmericansHistory.Italian AmericansHistoryItalian AmericansHistoryItalian AmericansEthnic identity.Italian AmericansHistory.973/.0451Wirth Christa1649307MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821060403321Memories of belonging3997975UNINA