'Italian America in the Making'
| Autor: | Marie-Christine Michaud |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Michaud, Marie-Christine, Dessens, Nathalie et Wendy Harding (dir), Héritages et Constructions dans le Texte et l'Image (HCTI), Institut Brestois des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (IBSHS), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Université de Brest (UBO) |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology
[SHS.SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology media_common.quotation_subject Italian americans Immigration Ethnic group Identity (social science) General Medicine Cultural heritage Multiculturalism Italo-américains Ethnology Sociology ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS media_common |
| Zdroj: | Identités américaines Identités américaines, 2010, s. l., France. p. 43-57 |
| ISSN: | 2431-1766 2425-6250 |
| DOI: | 10.4000/caliban.375 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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