AIHA Conference Volume

26. 1993. Italian Americans in a Multicultural Society.. Jerome Krase and Judith N. DeSena, eds. I FILIBRARY SERIES, NO.7, 1994. 302 pp. St. John's University, Jamaica, New York. November 11-13, 1993.

Table of Contents
JUDITH N. DESENA and JEROME KRASE, Introduction … p. viii

JEROME KRASE, The Ironies of Icons: The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Multiculturalists … p. 1

DANIEL J. MONTI, JR., The Working and Reworking of Italian-American Ethnicity in the United States … p. 19

JOSEPH M. CONFORTI, Italian Americans as "Ethnics": Description or Derogation? … p. 35

DOMINIC R. MASSARO, Italian Americans as a Cognizable Racial Group… p. 44

DONALD TRICARICO, Personals Ethnicity: Finding Italian Americans in Newspaper Dating Ads … p. 56

ELIZABETH G. MESSINA, Life Span Development and Italian-American Women … p. 74

PAMELA PRIMEGGIA, SALVATORE PRIMEGGIA, JOSEPH J. BENTIVEGNA, Nicola Paone: Narrator of the Italian-American Experience … p. 89

DENISE MANGIERI DICARLO, Interplay of Ritual for Italians in Multicultural Society … p. 107

WILLIAM EGELMAN AND JOSEPH SALVO, Italian Americans in New York City, 1990: A Demographic Overview … p. 114

FRANK J. CAVAIOLI, Columbus, Whitman and the Italian-American Connection … p. 127

RINA GANGEMI SPANO, Italian-American Children at Play on City Playgrounds and Streets 1880-1930 … p. 142

SALLY BOTTIGGI NARAMORE, Becoming Part of the Whole: Italian Americans in Columbia County, New York, 1900-1980 … p. 157

MICHAEL LASORTE, Retsof, NY: A Salt Mine Company Town… p. 169

STEFANO LUCONI, The Political Dimension of Multicultural Society: Italian Americans and Ethnically Balanced Tickets in Philadelphia During the New Deal … p. 184

SALVATORE LAGUMINA, March and Vaccarelli: Turn-of-the-Century Political Bosses … p. 200

GIL FAGIANI, An Italian American on the Left: Drugs, Revolution and Ethnicity in the 1970s … p. 217

ROSEANNE LUCIA QUINN, Sorelle delle ombre: Contronting Racism and Homophobia in Literature by Contemporary Italian-American Women … p. 236

FRANCO MULAS, Jews in the Italian-American Novel … p. 247

LOUISE NAPOLITANO, The Bittersweet Promise of America in Selected Works of Italian-American Fiction … p. 254

BLOSSOM S. KIRSCHENBAUM, Maria Corti's Discovery of America … p. 263

BIOGRAPHIES … p. 277

PROGRAM OF 26TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: "ITALIAN AMERICANS IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY" … p. 283

AMERICAN ITALIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION PROCEEDINGS SERIES … p. 294

PAST PRESIDENTS OF AIHA … p. 296

INDEX … p. 297