Title: Staying Italian : urban change and ethnic life in postwar Toronto and Philadelphia /
Authors: Stanger-Ross, Jordan
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Italian Americans Pennsylvania Philadelphia Ethnic identity History; Italians Ontario Toronto Ethnic identity History; Ethnicity United States History; Ethnicity Canada History; Ethnic neighborhoods United States History Case studies.; Ethnic neighborhoods Canada History Case studies.
Abstract: A comparison of the social dynamics prevailing in two distinctive Italian communities, in Philadelphia and Toronto, this text explores why the character of each community has come to be so unlike the other.
Contents: Cities apart: Toronto and Philadelphia -- Italian markets: real estate exchange and ethnic community -- Invitations and boundaries: patterns of religious participation -- Courtship, marriage, and the geography of intimacy -- Breaking the mold: work and postwar ethnicity.