City of neighborhoods : memory, folklore, and ethnic place in Boston / Anthony Bak Buccitelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buccitelli, Anthony Bak, author.

Series:

Folklore studies in a multicultural world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neighborhoods--Massachusetts--Boston.

Neighborhoods.

Folklore--Massachusetts--Boston.

Folklore.

Boston (Mass.)--Ethnic relations.

Boston (Mass.).

Boston (Mass.)--Social life and customs--21st century.

Ethnic relations.

Manners and customs.

Massachusetts--Boston.

Physical Description:

xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]

Summary:

East Boston has long been known as an Italian neighborhood and Southie as an Irish one, while nearby North Quincy has seen in recent decades an influx of both Chinese Americans and immigrants from China. Such urban spaces in America can become intimately intertwined with ethnic identities. Yet local residents often readily acknowledge an underlying diversity-both historically and as a result of more recent changes-that complicates such stereotypes. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Spaces of Memory: Local History Writing and Discourses of Ethnic Place 42

2 Ethnic Symbols, Inter textuality, and Indexed Memory 73

3 Ethnicity and Personalization in Local Memory Traditions 96

4 Festive Locales: Ethnic Celebrations and Local Meanings 121

5 Virtually a Local: Folk Geography, Digital Technology and Social Memory 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223) and index.

ISBN:

9780299307103

0299307107

OCLC:

925410838