"Italian America in the Making"
The presence of immigrants has undoubtedly contributed to the construction of the American nation. In such a process, the Italians have played an important role but interaction between the American environment and the Italian background has led to a new identity among the recent generations of Itali...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2012-04-01
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/acs/375 |
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| Summary: | The presence of immigrants has undoubtedly contributed to the construction of the American nation. In such a process, the Italians have played an important role but interaction between the American environment and the Italian background has led to a new identity among the recent generations of Italians in the United States. It can be called Italian-Americanness. Though Richard Alba maintained that European immigrants had been fusing into a new European-American group especially since the 1980s, an assimilative process that induced a "twilight" of ethnicity among them, Rudolph Vecoli and Richard Gambino rather thought that Italian-American ethnicity was in a "new dawn". This paper maintains that, in early 21st-century multicultural American society, the Italian Americans’ ethnicity may be said to have reached a "zenith" with regard to their economic and social positions and the place that their cultural heritage stands for in the larger society that might be on its way to become postethnic. |
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| ISSN: | 1278-3331 2427-0466 |