LEADER 04151nam 2200757 450 001 9910787430403321 005 20240109020301.0 010 $a90-04-28457-5 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004284579 035 $a(CKB)3710000000353083 035 $a(EBL)1981289 035 $a(OCoLC)904398305 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001438364 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11864185 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001438364 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11377472 035 $a(PQKB)10583629 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1981289 035 $a(OCoLC)893452212 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004284579 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1981289 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11028474 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL741185 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000353083 100 $a20150313h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMemories of belonging $edescendants of Italian migrants to the United States, 1884-present /$fby Christa Wirth 210 1$aLeiden, Netherlands ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cBrill,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (420 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in Global Social History,$x1874-6705 ;$vVolume 17 225 1 $aStudies in Global Migration History ;$vVolume 5 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-28456-7 311 $a1-336-09899-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary 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. 330 $aMemories of Belonging is a three-generation oral-history study of the offspring of southern Italians who migrated to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1913. Supplemented with the interviewees? private documents and working from U.S. and Italian archives, Christa Wirth documents a century of transatlantic migration, assimilation, and later-generation self-identification. Her research reveals how memories of migration, everyday life, and ethnicity are passed down through the generations, altered, and contested while constituting family identities. The fact that not all descendants of Italian migrants moved into the U.S. middle class, combined with their continued use of hyphenated identities, points to a history of lived ethnicity and societal exclusion. Moreover, this book demonstrates the extent of forgetting that is required in order to construct an ethnic identity. 410 0$aStudies in global social history ;$vVolume 17. 410 0$aStudies in global migration history ;$vVolume 5. 606 $aItalian Americans$zMassachusetts$zWorcester$xHistory 606 $aItalian Americans$zMassachusetts$zWorcester$xHistory$vSources 606 $aItalian Americans$zMassachusetts$zWorcester$xHistory$vInterviews 606 $aItalian Americans$xEthnic identity 606 $aItalian Americans$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory 607 $aItaly$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory 607 $aWorcester (Mass.)$xEthnic relations 615 0$aItalian Americans$xHistory. 615 0$aItalian Americans$xHistory 615 0$aItalian Americans$xHistory 615 0$aItalian Americans$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aItalian Americans$xHistory. 676 $a973/.0451 700 $aWirth$b Christa$01510919 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787430403321 996 $aMemories of belonging$93743874 997 $aUNINA