The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City

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Notes Abbreviations of Archival sources FTC Federal Writers’ Project, “Feeding the City,” Municipal Archives of the City of New York ILOHP New York City Immigrant Labor Oral History Project, Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Tamiment Institute Library, New York University INY Federal Writers’ Project, “The Italians of New York,” Municipal Archives of the City of New York LBB Federal Writers’ Project, “Let the Buyer Beware,” Municipal Archives of the City of New York LCP Leonard Covello Papers, Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia NYCG-LC Federal Writers’ Project, “New York City Guide,” Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC NYCG-MA Federal Writers’ Project, “New York City Guide,” Municipal Archives of the City of New York ONY Federal Writers’ Project, “Oddities of New York,” Municipal Archives of the City of New York Introduction 1. On The Sopranos as representation of Italian American life, see Regina Barreca, ed., A Sitdown with the Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on T.V.’s Most Talked About Series (New York: Palgrave, 2002). 2. Irvin L. Child, Italian or American? The Second Generation in Conflict (New Haven, Conn.:YaleUniversityPress,1943),197;HerbertJ.Gans,TheUrbanVillagers:GroupandClass in the Life of Italian Americans (New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1962), 33; Patrick J. Gallo, Ethnic Alienation: The Italian Americans (Rutherford, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1974), 194; James Crispino, The Assimilation of Ethnic Groups: The Italian Case (Staten Island, N.Y.: Center for Migration Studies, 1980), 48–50; Richard Alba, Italian Americans: 220 . notes to introduction Into the Twilight of Ethnicity (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1985), 133–34; John R. Mitrano, “I Have a Craving for Italian . . . : Food and Ethnic Identity Formation among Generation X Italian Americans,” in A Tavola: Food, Tradition and Community among Italian Americans, ed. Edvige Giunta and Samuel Patti (New York: AIHA, 1998), 20–30. 3. Mario Puzo, “Choosing a Dream,” in The Immigrant Experience: The Anguish of Becoming American, ed. Thomas C. Wheeler (New York: Dial Press, 1971), 39. 4. Stuart Hall, ed., Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1997); Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984); John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989); Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New York: Routledge, 1979); Michel Maffesoli, The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996). 5. Werner Sollors, “Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity,” in The Invention of Ethnicity , ed. Werner Sollors (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), xvi. The quotation from the Chinese laundryman is from “The Life Story of a Chinaman,” in Hamilton Holt, ed., The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves (New York: James Pott, 1906), 289. 6. Jack Goody, Cooking, Cuisine and Class: A Study in Comparative Sociology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996); Massimo Montanari, Food Is Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006). 7. On consumerism and the production of transnational American culture, see Henry Yu, “How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes: Post-Nationalist American Studies as a History of Race, Migration, and the Commodification of Culture,” in Post-Nationalist American Studies, ed. John Carlos Rowe (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 223–48; Kristin Hoganson, Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2007). 8. Marie Hall Ets, Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant Woman (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999), 172, 174. 9. John Mariani, “Food,” in The Encyclopedia of New York City, ed. Kenneth T. Jackson (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995), 423. 10. Donna R. Gabaccia, We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998), 54. 11. Hasia R. Diner, Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001), 81–82. 12. Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy,” Public Culture 2, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 1–24; Arlene Davila, Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001); Irdepal Grewal, “Traveling Barbie: Indian Transnationality and New Consumer Subjects,” positions 7, no. 3, (1999): 799–827; Purnima Mankekar, “‘India Shopping’: Indian Grocery Stores and Transnational Configurations of Belonging,” Ethnos 67, no. 1 (March 2002): 75–97. 13. Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990). Cohen brings as evidence of the demise of ethnic consumer subcultures during the...