AIHA Conference Volume
32. 1999. Italian Americans: A Retrospective on the Twentieth Century. . Paola Sensi-Isolani and Julian Tamburri, eds. 2001. 271 pp. Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California. November 11-13, 1999.
Table of Contents
Introduction
p. i
Italian Americans in the Social and Political Worlds
Michael Magliari, Producerisms Last Gasp: G.B. DeBernardi and the Labor
Exchange Movement, 1889-1901
p. 1
Major Peter L. Belmonte, Italian Americans in World War One and World War Two:
An Overview
p. 29
Stefano Luconi, World War II and Italian-American Voters
p. 51
Marie-Christine Michaud, The Italian-American Community in the 1950s: A Case of Political Assimilation
p. 72
Italian Ethnics in a Multicultural United States
James M. Wallace, We Are All Multiculturalists Now: From Melting Pot to Cosmopolitanism
p. 87
Janet E. Worrall, A Comparative Study of Hispanics and Italians in the Southwest
p. 110
Phylis Cancilla Martinelli, Italian Workers at Theodore Roosevelt Dam:
An Intermediate Ethnic Group in a Diverse Work Force
p. 127
The Italian World of Work
Adele Maiello, Italian Entrepreneurs in the Central Valley of California
p. 149
Simone Cinotto, Italian American Food Importers and Ethnic Consumption in 1930s New York
p. 167
Adriano Boncompagni, From Lucca to the Bush: Lucchesi in Western Australia in the 1920s & 1930
p. 179
Italian Americans and Social/Cultural Transformations
Dawn Esposito, The Women We Are: Images of Italian-American Women in the Cinema
p. 203
George Guida, Analyze This Goombah: Mafia Comedy as Italian American Cultural Expression
p. 225
Steven J. Belluscio, A Brief History of Italian/American Literary Criticism: Sixty Years of Breaking Silences
p. 245