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Author Orsi, Robert A.

Title The Madonna of 115th Street : faith and community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 / Robert Anthony Orsi.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [1985]
©1985

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  263.98    Check Shelf
Description xxiii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 271-282.
Contents The days and nights of the festa -- Italian Harlem -- The origins of the devotion to mount Carmel in Italian Harlem -- The domus-centered society -- Conflicts in the domus -- Toward an inner history of immigration -- The meanings of the devotion to the Madonna of 115th street -- The theology of the streets.
Note Includes index.
Subject Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to -- New York (State) -- New York.
Italian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Religion.
Italian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
New York (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration.
Indexed Term New York (City). Italian immigrant communities, 1880-1950
ISBN 0300032625 alkaline paper
9780300032628 alkaline paper
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