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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Italian American Experience in New Haven

The Italian American Experience in New Haven

Riccio, Anthony V.
McDonald Carolan, Mary Ann
Langdon, Philip

Paperback

Series: Suny Italian/American Culture

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesImmigration & RefugeesRegional: New England

ISBN10: 0791467740
ISBN13: 9780791467749
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 8 2009
Pages: 472
Weight: 3.27
Height: 0.82 Width: 8.40 Depth: 11.02
Language: English

A compelling social history of a vibrant immigrant community, told through interviews and photographs.

Using interviews and photographs, Anthony Riccio provides a vital supplement to our understanding of the Italian immigrant experience in the United States. In conversations around kitchen tables and in social clubs, members of New Haven's Italian American community evoke the rhythms of the streets and the pulse of life in the old ethnic neighborhoods. They describe the events that shaped the twentieth century-the Spanish Flu pandemic, the Great Depression, and World War II-along with the private histories of immigrant women who toiled under terrible working conditions in New Haven's shirt factories, who sacrificed dreams of education and careers for the economic well-being of their families. This is a compelling social, cultural, and political history of a vibrant immigrant community.

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