| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
The contested table : food, gender, and generations in Italian Harlem, 1920 -1930 -- "Sunday dinner? You had to be there!" : making food, family, and Nation in Italian Harlem, 1930 -1940 -- An American foodscape : food, place, and race in Italian Harlem -- The American business of Italian food : producers, consumers, and the making of ethnic identities -- "Buy Italian!" : imports, diasporic nationalism, and the politics of authenticity -- Serving ethnicity : Italian restaurants, American eaters, and the making of an ethnic popular culture |
| Summary |
Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, the author recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives of immigrants and their children. Drawing on a vast array of resources including fascinating, rarely explored primary documents and fresh approaches in the study of consumer culture, the author argues that Italian immigrants created a distinctive culture of food as a symbolic response to the needs of immigrant life, from the struggle for personal and group identity to the pursuit of social and economic power |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-256) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Italian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs
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Italian Americans -- Food -- New York (State) -- New York
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Food habits -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York
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Italian American families -- New York (State) -- New York
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Food habits -- Social aspects
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Italian American families
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Italian Americans -- Social life and customs
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New York (State) -- New York
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019720008 |
| ISBN |
9780252095016 |
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0252095014 |
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9781306291385 |
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1306291380 |
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