In the name of the mother : Italian Americans, African Americans, and modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen / Samuele F. S. Pardini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pardini, Samuele F. S., author.

Series:

Re-mapping the transnational

Re-mapping the transnational, a Dartmouth series in American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Italian Americans.

Italian Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans--Relations with Italian Americans.

African Americans.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

Italian Americans in mass media.

African Americans in mass media.

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

United States.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 263 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Italian Americans, African Americans, and modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen

Place of Publication:

Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 New World, Old Woman: Or, Modernity Upside Down 20

2 Rochester, Sicily: The Political Economy of Italian American Life and the Encounter with Blackness 52

3 Structures of Invisible Blackness: Racial Difference, (Homo)Sexuality, and Italian American Identity in African American Literature during Jim Crow 79

4 In the Name of the father, the Son, and the Holy Gun: Modernity as the Gangster 129

5 In the Name of the Mother: The Other Italian American Modernity 170

6 The Dago and the Darky: Staging Subversion 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pardini, Samuele F. S., author. In the name of the mother

ISBN:

9781512600186

1512600180

9781512600193

1512600199

OCLC:

945648885