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Memories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United States, 1884-Present

Memories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United States, 1884-Present

Wirth, Christa

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Global Migration History, Book 17

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004284567
ISBN13: 9789004284562
Publisher: Brill
Published: Feb 26 2015
Pages: 406
Weight: 1.63
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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.

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