24. 1991.Italian Americans and Their Public and Private Life..
Frank J. Cavaioli, Angela Danzi, and Salvatore J. LaGumina, eds. 1993. 240 pp.
New Haven, Connecticut. November 14-16, 1991.
Table of Contents Presidents Message p.vi Introduction p. ix Resume of Papers p. xi
PART I. A PUBLIC LIFE Chapter 1. Peter Sammartino by Frank J. Cavaioli p.3
Chapter 2. Ella Grasso by Jon E. Purmont p. 9
PART II. FAMILY Chapter 3. Poem: I Study Italian by Mary Russo Demetrick p.23
Chapter 4. Moonstruck: Cultures Observing and Observed by Mario Aste p.25
Chapter 5. Italian Migrant Workers in Turn-of-the-Century New Jersey by Cindy Hahamovitch p. 36
Chapter 6. Italian POW's and the Italian-American Community, 1943-1945: An Overview by Louis Keefer p. 48
Chapter 7. The Italians in Kenosha, Wisconsin by Joseph Salituro p. 54
PART III. RELIGION Chapter 8. Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, Gifted Pioneer of the Midwest by Flora Breidenbach p. 67
Chapter 9. Italian Protestants and the Catholic Church in Buffalo, New York by Secondo Casarotto p. 76
Chapter 10. A Case Study of the Italian Laymen and Parish Life at Our
Lady of Pompei, Greenwich Village, New York City by Mary Elizabeth Brown p. 94
PART IV. COMMUNITY Chapter 11. An Ounce of Prevention: Community Health and Italian American Women by Suzanne Krase p.107
Chapter 12. Community Cooperation and Activism: Italians and African Americans in
Williamsburgh, Brooklyn by Judith N. DeSena p. 116
Chapter 13. African American Student Reaction to Italian American Culture by Jerome Krase p. 125
Chapter 14. The Italian American Theater in Boston, 1935-1939 by Chris Newton p. 137
Chapter 15. The Botto House National Historic Landmark by Robert B. Immordino p. 149
PART V. TRANSITION Chapter 16. Public Policy and the Mexican Italians at El Paso, Texas by Valentino J. Belfigio p. 157
Chapter 17. Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, Anti-Communist Crusader by Salvatore J. LaGumina p. 172
Chapter 18. Madonna and Mafioso: A View of Mythopoeia in Practice by Anthony LaRuffa p.180
Chapter 19. The Italian Woman in Fiction: A Journey from Private to Public by
Rose DeAngelis p. 186
Chapter 20. Southern Italian-American Comedy: The Cases of Matteo Cannizzaro, Lou Monte,
Louis Prima and Dom DeLuise by Salvatore Primeggia, Floyd Vivino and
Joseph Varacalli p. 194
Chapter 21. Italian Americans and Professional Boxing in Connecticut, 1941-1951 by Richard Renoff p. 212
APPENDIX A. Contributors p. 228
APPENDIX B. PROCEEDINGS Publications of the American Italian Historical Association p. 232