TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wirth, Christa
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015//
TI  - Memories of belonging: descendants of Italian migrants to the United States, 1884-present
T3  - Studies in global social history
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Italian Americans
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Worcester
KW  - History
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Einwanderung
KW  - Italienischer Einwanderer
KW  - Kind
KW  - Migrationshintergrund
KW  - Worcester (Mass.)
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - United States
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Italy
KW  - USA
KW  - Italien
AB  - "Memories of Belonging is a three-generation oral-history study of the offspring of southern Italians who migrated to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1913. Supplemented with the interviewees' private documents and working from U.S. and Italian archives, author Christa Wirth documents a century of transatlantic migration, assimilation, and later-generation self-identification. Her research reveals how memories of migration, everyday life, and ethnicity are passed down through the generations, altered, and contested while constituting family identities. The fact that not all descendants of Italian migrants moved into the U.S. middle class, combined with their continued use of hyphenated identities, points to a history of lived ethnicity and societal exclusion. Moreover, this book demonstrates the extent of forgetting that is required in order to construct an ethnic identity"--
SN  - 9789004284562
LA  - English
N1  - by Christa Wirth
ID  - 1616375574
ER  -