The Routledge History of Italian Americans weaves a narrative of the trials and triumphs of one of the nation's largest ethnic groups. This history, comprising original essays by leading scholars and critics, addresses themes that include the Columbian legacy, immigration, the labor movement, discrimination, anarchism, Fascism, World War II patriotism, assimilation, gender identity and popular culture.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Color Plates
• List of Tables
• Academic Advisory Board
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations and a Note on Surnames
• Introduction: A New History for a New Millennium - WILLIAM J. CONNELL
• Part I Explorations and Foundations
• 1 Italians in the Early Atlantic World - WILLIAM J. CONNELL
• 2 From the Pilgrim Fathers to the Founding Fathers: Italy and America - EDOARDO TORTAROLO
• 3 When They Were Few: Italians in America, 1800–1850 - JOHN PAUL RUSSO
• 4 America's Garibaldi: The United States and Italian Unification - DON H. DOYLE
• 5 Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in Nineteenth-Century America - DENNIS LOONEY
• Photo Essay: Life In Italian America
• Part II The Great Migration and Creating Little Italies
• 6 Why Italians Left Italy: The Physics and Politics of Migration, 1870–1920 - MADDALENA TIRABASSI
• 7 The Silence of the Atlantians: Contact, Conflict, Consolidation (1880–1913) - PETER CARRAVETTA
• 8 The Little Italies of the Early 1900s: From the Reports of Amy Bernardy - MADDALENA TIRABASSI
• 9 Interpreting Little Italies: Ethnicity as an Accident of Geography - MARIA SUSANNA GARRONI
• 10 Culture and Identity on the Table: Italian American Food as Social History - SIMONE CINOTTO
• 11 Italian Americans and Their Religious Experience - RICHARD N. JULIANI
• 12 Italian Americans and Race during the Era of Mass Immigration - PETER G. VELLON
• 13 Discrimination, Prejudice and Italian American History - SALVATORE J. LAGUMINA
• 14 The Languages of Italian Americans - NANCY C. CARNEVALE
• 15 Italian American Book Publishing and Bookselling - JAMES J. PERICONI
• 16 From Margins to Vanguard to Mainstream: Italian Americans and the Labor Movement - MARCELLA BENCIVENNI
• 17 The Sacco and Vanzetti Case and the Psychology of Political Violence - MICHAEL TOPP
• 18 A Diary in America and a Death in Rome - FRANCESCO DURANTE
• Part III Becoming American and Contesting America
• 19 The Bumpy Road Toward Political Incorporation, 1920–1984 - STEFANO LUCONI
• 20 Italian Emigration, Remittances and the Rise of Made-in-Italy - MARK I. CHOATE
• 21 Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Italian America - STANISLAO G. PUGLIESE
• 22 World War II Changed Everything - DOMINIC CANDELORO
• 23 Mothers and Daughters in Italian American Narratives - MARY JO BONA
• 24 The Italian American Family and Transnational Circuits - JOANNE RUVOLI
• 25 Groovin’: A Riff on Italian Americans in Popular Music and Jazz - JOHN GENNARI
• 26 Italian Americans and Cinema - GIULIANA MUSCIO
• 27 Italian Americans and Television - ANTHONY JULIAN TAMBURRI
• 28 Italian Americans in Sport - LAWRENCE BALDASSARO
• 29 Organized Crime and Italian Americans - ANTONIO NICASO
• Color Plates
• Part IV Postwar to Post-Ethnic?
• 30 Italian Americans and Assimilation - RICHARD ALBA
• 31 Italian Americans in the Suburbs: Transplanting Ethnicity to the Crabgrass Frontier - DONALD TRICARICO
• 32 “Whatever Happened to Little Italy?” - JEROME KRASE
• 33 Italian American Femininities - ILARIA SERRA
• 34 Italian American Masculinities - FRED GARDAPHÉ
• 35 Fuori per Sempre: Gay and Lesbian Italian Americans Come Out - GEORGE DE STEFANO
• 36 Immigration from Italy since the 1990s - TERESA FIORE
• 37 Contemporary Italian American Identities - ROSEMARY SERRA
• 38 The Orphanage: Encounters in Transnational Space - ROBERT VISCUSI
• Conclusion: The Future of Our Past - STANISLAO G. PUGLIESE
• Glossary - COMPILED BY WILLIAM J. CONNELL