AIHA Conference Volume

17. 1984. Support and Struggle: Italians and Italian Americans in a Comparative Perspective. Joseph L. Tropea, James E. Miller, and Cheryl Beatti-Repetti, eds. 1986. 312 pp. Washington, DC. November 9-11, 1984.


Table of Contents
Acknowledgments … p. i
Dedication to Leonard Moss … p. 3
Introduction … p. 5

Francesco Vigo: Italian o the American Frontier, by Eric Pumroy … p. 9

Father John Anthony Grassi: Co-Founder of Georgetown University, by Roberto Severino … p. 23

Italian Workers in New Haven: Mutuality and Solidarity at the Turn of the Century, by Jonathon H. Gillette … p. 33

The Beginnings of the Italian Socialist Movement in Chicago, by Eugene Miller and Gianna Sommi Panofsky … p. 55

Prefects, Prosecutors and Proles: The Suppression and Trial of the Italian Worker Party in 1886, by Michael Hembree … p. 71

The Dilemma of the Ethnic Community: The Italian-Immigrant Woman Between “Preservation” and “Americanization” in America of the Early Twentieth Century, by Elizabetta Vezzosi … p. 83

No Place Like Home: A Pictorial Essay on Italian-American Homeworkers in New York: 1910-1913, by Cynthia R. Daniels … p. 93

Italians in Sao Paulo, Brazil: From Rural Proletariat to Middle Class, by Thomas H. Holloway … p. 115

Ansaldo and Company in the United States, 1915-1921, by Ferdinando Fasce … p. 131

The Structural Basis of the Uneasy Shopkeeper: Italian-Americans of the Contemporary Northwest, by Michael J. Eula … p. 143

Pecularities in the Immigration to America of Sardinians from Carloforte, 1900-1930, by Lina Unali and Franco Mulas … p. 163

The Evolution of Washington’s Italian-American Community, 1890-Present, by Howard Gillette Jr. and Alan K. Kraut … p. 171

Wartime Anti-Fascism: Gaetano Salvemini and the American Authorities, by Charles Killinger … p. 189

Sicilian Separatism, the Mafia and the Origins of Sicilian Autonomy, 1943-1946, by Monte S. Finkelstein … p. 207

Rescue of Jews by the Italian Army in Yugoslavia, 1941-1943, by Ivo Herzer … p. 225

Italy and the Marshall Plan, 1948-1950, by Chiarella Esposito … p. 233

Language, Culture and the Expression of Ethnicity Among Italian Americans, by Robert J. DiPietro … p. 249

The Hidden Godfather: Plentitude and Absence in Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather I and II, by John Paul Russo … p. 255

Catholicism and Violence in the Films of Martin Scorcese, by Robert Casillo … p. 283

Poems, by Justin Vitiello … p. 305

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