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  • Built with Faith

    Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City

    by Joseph Sciorra ...
    “No one knows the world of Italian American Catholicism in contemporary New York better than Joseph Sciorra. In the five brilliant case studies that make up this book, Sciorra explores how Italian Americans construct, by hand, their religious environment—in their homes, in the streets, backyards, and sidewalks of the city—in a kind of sacred sweat equity. Like the artisans he writes about, Sciorra ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 2

    Art and Culture since 1945

    by Joseph Sciorra, Anthony Julian Tamburri, John Allan Cicala, Simone Cinotto, Teresa Fiore, Incoronata Inserra, Laura E Ruberto ...
    This second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by and about Italian immigrants and their descendants since 1945. The essays range from an Italian-language radio program that broadcast intimate messages from family members in Italy to the role of immigrant cookbook writers in crafting a fashionable Italian food ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Neapolitan Postcards

    The Canzone Napoletana as Transnational Subject

    Edited by Goffredo Plastino, Joseph Sciorra ...
    Series series Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
    Neapolitan Postcards gathers a diverse group of international scholars to investigate unexplored transnational aspects of the intimate yet globally popular canzone napoletana. Performed and beloved worldwide in almost every language, the style had hits such as “Funiculì funiculà” (1880) and “’O sole mio” (1898) which sold millions of copies. These hits fueled the tradition’s spread across the ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Embroidered Stories

    Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora

    Edited by Edvige Giunta, Joseph Sciorra ...
    For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have become. This book is an interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 1

    Politics and History since 1945

    by Joseph Sciorra, Donna R. Gabaccia, Ottorino Cappelli, Donna Gabaccia, Stefano Luconi, Maddalena Marinari, James S Pasto, Rodrigo Praino, Laura E Ruberto, Donald Tricarico1, Elizabeth Zanoni2 ...
    Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our historical studies. Until now. In this new collection, Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra edit essays by an elite roster of scholars in Italian American studies. These interdisciplinary works focus on leading edge topics that range from politics of the McCarren-Walter Act and its effects on women to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Living the Revolution

    Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945

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  • Are Italians White?

    How Race is Made in America

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  • Making Italian America

    Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities

    by Simone Cinotto ...
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  • Nationalism in Italian Politics

    The Stories of the Northern League, 1980-2000

    by Damian Tambini ...
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    This book is the first full-length study available in English to trace the extraordinary history of the Italian Northern Leagues during the 1980s and 1990s. At a time when the postwar First Republic entered a crisis amid corruption scandals, the Leagues acted as one of the main protest actors and grew at an unprecedented rate.Drawing on electoral and survey data, existing research, eyewitness ... Read more

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  • The Routledge History of Italian Americans

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    The Routledge History of Italian Americans weaves a narrative of the trials and triumphs of one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups. This history, comprising original essays by leading scholars and critics, addresses themes that include the Columbian legacy, immigration, the labor movement, discrimination, anarchism, Fascism, World War II patriotism, assimilation, gender identity and popular ... Read more

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  • The Capital Order

    How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

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