"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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2012-04-01
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-0972166a21ca47b0bfbaa04365b1ace32025-01-30T12:33:59ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiAnglophonia1278-33312427-04662012-04-0131435710.4000/caliban.375"Italian America in the Making"Marie-Christine MichaudThe 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.https://journals.openedition.org/acs/375identitéethnicitéItalo-américainswhite ethnics |
| spellingShingle | Marie-Christine Michaud "Italian America in the Making" Anglophonia identité ethnicité Italo-américains white ethnics |
| title | "Italian America in the Making" |
| title_full | "Italian America in the Making" |
| title_fullStr | "Italian America in the Making" |
| title_full_unstemmed | "Italian America in the Making" |
| title_short | "Italian America in the Making" |
| title_sort | italian america in the making |
| topic | identité ethnicité Italo-américains white ethnics |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/acs/375 |
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