Feeling Italian by Thomas J Ferraro
Contending that the media has become the primary vehicle of Italian sensibilities, this book explores a series of books, movies, paintings, and records in ten dramatic vignettes.-
Immigration and American Popular Culture
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Framed by War
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The Slums of Aspen
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Social Death
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The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration
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Returns of War
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Girlhood in the Borderlands
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From Arrival to Incorporation
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Transnational Adoption
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Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship
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Global Families
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Islam Is a Foreign Country
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Beyond the Shadow of Camptown
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African & American
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Entitled to Nothing
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Rough Writing
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Love and Empire
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Citizens of Asian America
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Arab America
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Race for Citizenship
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Constructing Black Selves
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The Third Asiatic Invasion
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Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific
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The Force of Domesticity
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Who's Your Paddy?
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Whiteness on the Border
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From the Land of Shadows
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The New Immigrant Whiteness
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Migrant Imaginaries
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Soft Soil, Black Grapes
"Ferraro maintains a breezy, journalistic style that has produced an easy and entertaining readHis work may give hope to people of other ethnicities who presently suffer from isolation and alienation on the part of the general American public." (Multicultural Review) "Feeling Italian is a smart book, one that makes the reader think beyond the usual ways of looking at whats Italian about the US." (American Book Review) "Original and deeply right. There is no other book that digs so deeply into the matter at hand, and does so with such eloquence and ferocity of intellect." - Jay Parini,author of Passage to Liberty: The Story of Italian Immigration and the Rebirth of America "This inspired, sophisticated, provoking book should command the attention of anybody interested in American Italianness in particular or the cultural consequences of ethnicity in general. Joseph Stella and Frank Sinatra, Maria Barbella and Giancarlo Esposito, Madonna and the good people who brought you the Corleones and Sopranos;they and others appear here, often seen in startlingly fresh ways, as creators and exemplars of the aesthetic Tom Ferraro calls & feeling Italian. Wise, funny, contagiously enthusiastic, Ferraro takes us far beyond the narrow pieties of the identity police or anti-defamation types as he traces the development of a widely accessible American cultural style that still bears the marks of distinctively Italian ways of making do and making sense." - Carlo Rotella,author of Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt "Ferraro traces the 'evolution and persistence' of an identifiable Italian American identity, from the time of widespread Italian immigration in the late 1800s through popular mediated portrayals of Italian Americans such as those found in The Sopranos television series. The book is an important contribution not only to Italian American studies, but to the understanding of ethnicity in the 21st-century US." (Choice)
Thomas J. Ferraro is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. He is the author of Ethnic Passages and editor of Catholic Lives, Contemporary America.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780814727478 |
| ISBN 10 | 0814727476 |
| Title | Feeling Italian |
| Author | Thomas J Ferraro |
| Series | Nation Of Nations |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New York University Press |
| Year published | 2005-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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