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Italian Americans in a Multicultural Society. Proceedings of the Symposium
of the American Italian Historical Association, held at St. John's
University, 11-13 November 1993, edited by Jerome Krase and Judith N.
DeSena. Stony Brook, N.Y.: Forum Italicum, c1994 (= Forum Italicum,
Monographic Supplement, Filibrary Series, No. 7), xviii + 302 pp.
ISSN 0014-5858
Contents:
Table of Contents......................................v
Judith N. DeSena and Jerome Krase
Introduction........................................viii
The American Italian Historical Association........xviii
Jerome Krase
Ironies of Icons: The Slings and Arrows of
Outrageous Multiculturalists.......................1
Daniel J. Monti, Jr.
Some Sort of Americans: The Working and
Reworking of Italian-American Ethnicity in the
United States......................................19
Joseph M. Conforti
Italian Americans as "Ethnics": Description
or Derogation?.....................................35
Dominic R. Massaro
Italian Americans as a Cognizable Racial Group......44
Donald Tricarico
Personals Ethnicity: Finding Italian Americans
in Newspaper Dating Ads.............................56
Elizabeth G. Messina
Life Span Development and Italian American
Women: A Review.....................................74
Pamela Primeggia, Salvatore Primeggia, Joseph
J. Bentivegna
Nicola Paone: Narrator of the Italian American
Experience...........................................89
Denise Mangieri DiCarlo
Interplay of Ritual for Italians in Multicultural
Society.............................................107
William Egelman and Joseph Salvo
Italian Americans in New York City, 1990:
A Demographic Overview..............................114
Frank J. Cavaioli
Columbus, Whitman and the Italian-American
Connection..........................................127
Rina Gangemi Spano
Italian-American Children at Paly on City
Playgrounds and Streets 1880-1930...................142
Sally Bottiggi Naramore
Becoming Part of the Whole: Italian Americans
in Columbia County, New York, 1900-1980.............157
Michael LaSorte
Retsof, NY: A Salt Mine Company Town................169
Stefano Luconi
The Political Dimension of Multicultural Society:
Italian Americans and Ethnically Balanced Tickets
in Philadelphia During the New Deal.................184
Salvatore LaGumina
March and Vaccarelli: Turn-of-the-Century
Political Bosses....................................200
Gil Fagiani
An Italian American on the Left: Drugs,
Revolution and Ethnicity in the 1970s...............217
Roseanne Lucia Quinn
_Sorelle delle ombre_: Confronting Racism and
Homophobia in Literature by Contemporary
Italian-American Women..............................236
Franco Mulas
Jes in the Italian-American Novel...................247
Louise Napolitano
The Bittersweet Promise of America in Selected
Works of Italian-American Fiction...................254
Blossom S. Kirschenbaum
Maria Corti's Discovery of America..................263
Biographies.........................................277
Program of the 26th Annual Conference: "Italian
Americans in a Multicultural Society"...............283
American Italian Historical Association Procee-
dings Series........................................294
Past Presidents of AIHA.............................296
Index...............................................297
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