Staying Italian
Subtitle: urban change and ethnic life in postwar Toronto and Philadelphia
By: Jordan Stanger-Ross.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780226770741
Subjects: Italian Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 20th century; Italians -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 20th century; Ethnicity -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Ethnicity -- Canada -- History -- 20th century; Ethnic neighborhoods -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies; Ethnic neighborhoods -- Canada -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cities apart : Toronto and Philadelphia; title: Italian markets : real estate exchange and ethnic community; title: Invitations and boundaries : patterns of religious participation; title: Courtship, marriage, and the geography of intimacy; title: Breaking the mold : work and postwar ethnicity.