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.

Folklore studies in a multicultural world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore--Massachusetts--Boston.

Folklore.

Neighborhoods--Massachusetts--Boston.

Neighborhoods.

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

Boston (Mass.).

Boston (Mass.)--Ethnic relations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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 Chinese Americans and immigrants. Such urban spaces in America can become intimately intertwined with ethnic identities (Little Italy, Greektown, Chinatown, Little Havana). Yet local residents often readily acknowledge an underlying diversity—both historically and as a result of more recent changes—that complicates such stereotypes. Digging into the ever-shifting terrain of American ethnicity and urban spaces, Anthony Bak Buccitelli investigates folk practices, social memory, and local histories in three Boston-area neighborhoods. He looks at the ways locals represent their neighborhoods and themselves via events, symbols, stories, and landmarks, from the shamrock to the Chinese flag, whether the St. Patrick's Day parade in Southie or the Columbus Day parade in East Boston, from urban graffiti and websites to the Dorchester Heights Monument. City of Neighborhoods exposes the processes of selection and emphasis that produce, sustain, challenge, and change understandings of urban spaces as ethnic places.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: City of Neighborhoods

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

Chapter 2. Ethnic Symbols, Intertextuality, and Indexed Memory

Chapter 3. Ethnicity and Personalization in Local Memory Traditions

Chapter 4. Festive Locales: Ethnic Celebrations and Local Meanings

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

Conclusion: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299307134

0299307131

OCLC:

946360797