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Staying Italian : urban change and ethnic life in postwar Toronto and Philadelphia / Jordan Stanger-Ross.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stanger-Ross, Jordan.
- Series:
- Historical Studies of Urban America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Ethnic identity--History--20th century.
- Italian Americans.
- Italians--Ontario--Toronto--Ethnic identity--History--20th century.
- Italians.
- Ethnicity--United States--History--20th century.
- Ethnicity.
- Ethnicity--Canada--History--20th century.
- Ethnic neighborhoods--United States--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Ethnic neighborhoods.
- Ethnic neighborhoods--Canada--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Despite their twin positions as two of North America's most iconic Italian neighborhoods, South Philly and Toronto's Little Italy have functioned in dramatically different ways since World War II. Inviting readers into the churches, homes, and businesses at the heart of these communities, Staying Italian reveals that daily experience in each enclave created two distinct, yet still Italian, ethnicities. As Philadelphia struggled with deindustrialization, Jordan Stanger-Ross shows, Italian ethnicity in South Philly remained closely linked with preserving turf an
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Cities Apart: Toronto and Philadelphia after World War II
- 2. Italian Markets: Real Estate Exchange and Ethnic Community
- 3. Invitations and Boundaries: Patterns of Religious Participation
- 4. Courtship, Marriage, and the Geography of Intimacy
- 5. Breaking the Mold: Work and Postwar Ethnicity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612504334
- 9781282504332
- 1282504339
- 9780226770765
- 0226770761
- OCLC:
- 609855212
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