Italian Immigrant Radical Culture, 2011, p.37-66
2011
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- The Sovversivi and Their Cultural World
- Ist Teil von
- Italian Immigrant Radical Culture, 2011, p.37-66
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: NYU Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Bringing attention to the important role of ethnic leadership in shaping immigrant life, the late John Higham noted that immigrant leaders “focus the consciousness of an ethnic group and make its identity visible. . . . [They] create the structures of the ethnic community; they produce (or confirm) its symbolic expressions; they exemplify the style that enables the group fully to experience itself.”¹ Traditionally, the Italian American leader was thought of as someone who had wealth and power in the community: a “prominent man.” Theprominentiorpadroni, as these leaders began to be called in thecolonie italiane, essentially
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780814791035, 0814791034DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814791035.003.0003Titel-ID: cdi_walterdegruyter_books_10_18574_nyu_9780814791035_003_0003
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, American minorities, Anarchism, Anthropology, Applied anthropology, Arturo Giovannitti, Behavioral sciences, Carlo Tresca, Communications, Communities, Cultural anthropology, Cultural customs, cultural life, Ethnic groups, ethnic leaders, Ethnology, Feasts, Food consumption, Food studies, History of the Americas, Holidays, Human societies, Italian Americans, Italian immigrant activists, Lectures, Liberalism, Luigi Galleani, Mass communication, May Day, Meals, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Picnics, Political ideologies, Political philosophy, Political science, Propaganda, Psychology, Radicalism, radicals, Seasonal celebrations, Social and Cultural History, Social attitudes, Social groups, Social psychology, Social sciences, Socialism, Sociology, Solidarity, sovversivi, Speech, Spoken communication