20. 1987.Italian Ethnics: Their Languages, Literature and Lives.
Dominic Candeloro, Fred L. Gardaphe, and Paolo A. Giordano, eds. 1990. 478 pp. Chicago, Illinois. November 11-13, 1987.
Table of Contents Introduction p. i Keynote Address, by Joseph Tusiani p. 1 Response, by Giose Rimanelli p. 9
Languages
Italian Languages and Culture Promotion: The Pitfall of Cross-Cultural Misunderstanding,
by Paola Sensi-Isolani p. 15
Language Retention and Ethnic Politics: A Case Study of an Italian-American Community in the 1930s,
by Salvatore J. LaGumina p. 23
Linguistic Attitudes of the Sardinian Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930,
by Lina Unali and Franco Mulas p. 33
Politeness and Languages in Contact: Italians in Toronto,
by Jana Vizmuller-Zocco p. 43
Ethnic Identity and Language: The Case of the Italo-Albanians,
by Mary Pecoraro Cawthon p. 51
Literature
What is Italian American Literature, by Robert Viscusi p. 65
Emigrazione e American nella letteratura del Sud dItalia, by Sabastiano Martelli p. 71
Arturo Giovannitti: Writings from Lawrence, by Lucinda LaBella Mays p. 79
Italian-American Women on the Frontier: Sister Blandina Segale on the Santa Fe Trail, by Diane Raptosh p. 91
The Scholarship of the AIHA: Past Achievements and Future Perspectives, by Joseph Velikonja p. 109
Lives
Introductory Remarks, by Hon. Consul Genneral Dottore Leonardo Baroncelli p. 127
La famiglia italiana e la famiglia statiunitense: A comparative historical study,
by Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum p. 133
NSC 1 and United States Foreign Policy Towards Italy, by Ernest E. Rossi p. 147
Americas Little Italies: Past, Present and Future, by Jerome Krase p. 169
The Participation of Italian American Women in Community Organizations, by Judith N. DeSena p. 185
A Sociodemographic Analysis of Italian Americans and the Twilight of Ethnicity, by Frank J. Cavaioli p. 191
Small Business and Social Mobility among Italian Americans, by Andrew Sanchirico p. 201
Old World Traits Obliterated: Immigrant Midwives and the Medicalization of Childbirth, by Angela D. Danzi p. 215
Ferrazzanesi in Cortland, New York, by Francis X. Femminella p. 231
Coverting the Italians: Protestant and Catholic Proselytzers in Milwaukee, by John Andreozzi p. 245
A View of Two Major Centers of Italian Anarchism in the United States: Spring Valley and Chicago Illinois,
by Gianna S. Panofsky p. 271
The Italian Massacre at Walsenburg, Colorado, 1895, by Conrad Woodall p. 297
Drops within the Social River: Many Idioms of the Shopfloor from an Italian Perspective,
by Ferdinando Fasce p. 319
Italian Emigration to the United States of America: The Case of Sicily (1880-1914),
by Luigi Di Comite and Michele De Candia p. 339
La Grande Emigrazione Italiana negli Stati Uniti. Il caso della Calabria, by Giuseppe De Bartolo p. 357
Memoirs
Oral History: Our Ethnic Past is a Foreign Country, by Michael La Sorte p. 379
The Burden of a Name, by Adria Bernardi p. 393
First Encounter with Molise: Land of My Father, by Richard N. Juliani p. 399
On Translating My Fathers Memoirs: Portrait of the Italian Immigrant as a Young Man 1897-1920,
by Teresa Cerasuola p. 417
One Hundred Years of Italian Immigration in Vermillion County, Indiana (1856-1956),
by Edoardo A. Labano p. 429
The Italian Immigrant in the American South 1900-1960, by Al J. Montesi p. 441
Americal Unico and Festa italiana in Chicago, by Anthony Fornelli p. 455