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  • New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 1: Politics and History since 1945
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  • Edited by Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra: Afterword by Donna Gabaccia
  • 2017
  • Published by: University of Illinois Press
summary
Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our historical studies. Until now. In this new collection, Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra edit essays by an elite roster of scholars in Italian American studies. These interdisciplinary works focus on leading edge topics that range from politics of the McCarren-Walter Act and its effects on women to the ways Italian Americans mobilized against immigration restrictions. Other essays unwrap the inner workings of multi-ethnic power brokers in a Queens community, portray the complex transformation of identity in Boston’s North End, and trace the development of Italian American youth culture and how new arrivals fit into it. Finally, Donna Gabaccia pens an afterword on the importance of this seventy-year period in U.S. migration history.

Contributors: Ottorino Cappelli, Donna Gabaccia, Stefano Luconi, Maddalena Marinari, James S. Pasto, Rodrigo Praino, Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra, Donald Tricarico, and Elizabeth Zanoni.

Table of Contents

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half Title, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Quotation
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xiv
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  1. Introduction: Real Italians, New Immigrants
  2. Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra
  3. pp. 1-32
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  1. 1. Italy, Italian Americans, and the Politics of the McCarran-Walter Act
  2. Stefano Luconi
  3. pp. 33-58
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  1. 2. “In the name of God . . . and in the interest of our country”: The Cold War, Foreign Policy, and Italian Americans' Mobilization against Immigation Restriction
  2. Maddalena Marinari
  3. pp. 59-79
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  1. 3. “A Wife in Waiting”: Women and the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act in Il Progresso Italo-Americano Advice Columns
  2. Elizabeth Zanoni
  3. pp. 80-104
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  1. 4. Immigrants and Ethnics: Post–World War II Italian Immigration and Boston’s North End (1945–2016)
  2. James S. Pasto
  3. pp. 105-131
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  1. 5. New Second Generation Youth Culture in the Twilight of Italian American Ethnicity
  2. Donald Tricarico
  3. pp. 132-157
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  1. 6. The Kingmakers of Fresh Pond Road: Ethnic-Political Brokers in an Italian American Community
  2. Ottorino Cappelli, Rodrigo Praino
  3. pp. 158-184
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  1. Afterword
  2. Donna Gabaccia
  3. pp. 185-192
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 193-196
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 197-202
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