Making Italian America : consumer culture and the production of ethnic identities / edited by Simone Cinotto ; Danielle Battisti [and seven others], contributors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cinotto, Simone, editor.

Battisti, Danielle, contributor.

Series:

Critical studies in Italian America.

Critical Studies in Italian American

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Italian Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land--and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic marketing to explore these questions by focusing on the case of an ethnic group whose material culture and lifestyles have been central to American life: Italian Americans."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction. All things Italian: Italian American consumers, the transnational formation of taste, and the commodification of difference / Simone Cinotto

Part I. Immigrants encounter and remake U.S. consumer society: The shaping of Italian American identities through commodities and commercial leisure, 1900-1930. Visibly fashionable: the changing role of clothes in the everyday life of Italian American immigrant women / Vittoria Caterina Caratozzolo

Making space for domesticity: household goods in working-class Italian American homes, 1900-1940 / Maddalena Tirabassi

In Italy everyone enjoys it-why not in America? Italian Americans and consumption in transnational perspective during the early Twentieth Century / Elizabeth Zanoni

Sovereign consumption: Italian Americans' transnational film culture in 1920's New York City / Giorgio Bertellini

Consuming La Bella Figura: Charles Atlas and American masculinity, 1910-1940 / Dominique Padurano

Radical visions and consumption: culture and leisure among the early Twentieth-Century Italian American left / Marcella Bencivenni

Part II. The politics and style of Italian American consumerism, 1930-1980. Italian Americans, the New Deal state, and the making of citizen consumers / Stefano Luconi

Italian Americans, consumerism, and the Cold War in transnational perspective / Danielle Battisti

Italian Doo-Wop: sense of place, politics of style, and racial crossovers in postwar New York City / Simone Cinotto

Consuming Italian Americans: invoking ethnicity in the buying and selling of Guido / Donald Tricarico

Part III. Consuming Italian American identities in the multicultural age, 1980 to the present. The double life of the Italian suit: Italian Americans and the "Made in Italy" label / Courtney Ritter

Sideline shtick: The Italian American basketball coach and consumable images of racial and ethnic masculinity / John Gennari

The immigrant enclave as theme park: culture, capital, and urban change in New York's Little Italies / Ervin Kosta

We are family: ethnic food marketing and the consumption of authenticity in Italian-themed chain restaurants / Fabio Parasecoli.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-301) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780823256266

082325626X

9780823261741

0823261743

9780823256242

0823256243

9780823256273

0823256278

9780823261185

0823261182

9780823256259

0823256251

OCLC:

878144592