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Author Carnevale, Nancy C., 1962-

Title A new language, a new world : Italian immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945 / Nancy C. Carnevale.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.851 C289N    Check Shelf
Description x, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial series.
Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-235) and index.
Contents The Italian languages in Italy and America -- Linguistic boundaries in American history -- "He could not explain things the way I tell it" : the immigrant in translation -- The world turned upside down in Farfariello's theater of language -- The identity politics of language : Italian language maintenance in New York City, 1920-40 -- Language, Italian American identity, and the limits of cultural pluralism in the World War II years.
Subject Italian Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Italian Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Italian Americans -- Languages.
Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Immigrants -- United States -- Language.
Sociolinguistics -- United States -- History.
United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780252034039 cloth alkaline paper
0252034031 cloth alkaline paper
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