Viewing an American Ethnic Community: Rochester, New York, Italians in Photographs
Frank Salamone's fascinating ethnography,Viewing an American Ethnic Community: Rochester, New York Italians in Photographs,thoroughly and thoughtfully describes this Italian-American community in upstate New York. He integrates illuminating interviews with community members of different generations, comprehensive historical and field research with his own biographical connections and experiences culminating in an engaging and necessary piece of scholarship. Like other great community ethnographies, Salamone's intimate portrayal provides a fascinating window into this Italian community demonstrating both cultural and personal nuances and a wider breadth of understanding Italian experiences in America as a whole. (Aldredge, Marcus)Frank Salamone is not only a gifted ethnographer but - as the photographs in this volume amply attest - a gifted photographer as well. The images in this collection vividly evoke the past in the present and project the present into the future. (Glazier, Stephen D.)