Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) |
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Portuguese in the Americas Series |
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Portuguese in the Americas series.
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Contents |
Spindle City -- Family Migrations -- Street and Tenement -- "Up the Flint" -- Faith -- Aspirations -- Native Ground, Again -- Leaving |
Summary |
A searching portrait of a city battered by the collapse of the textile industry woven into a spirited coming of age story |
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This memoir is both a personal story and a portrait of a distinctive New England place - Fall River, Massachusetts, once the cotton cloth capital of America. Growing up, the author's world was defined by rolling hills, granite mills, and forests of triple-deckers. The author, whose mother was Portuguese and whose father was Italian, recounts how he negotiated those identities in a city where ethnic heritage mattered. Paralleling his own account, he shares the story of his family, three generations of Portuguese and Italians who made their way in this once-mighty textile city |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Conforti, Joseph A.
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SUBJECT |
Conforti, Joseph A. fast |
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Portuguese Americans -- Massachusetts -- Fall River
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Italian Americans -- Massachusetts -- Fall River
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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Italian Americans
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Portuguese Americans
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Social conditions
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SUBJECT |
Fall River (Mass.) -- Social conditions
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Fall River (Mass.) -- History
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Fall River (Mass.) -- Biography
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Massachusetts -- Fall River
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781933227573 |
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1933227575 |
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