The Italian American Experience
Subtitle: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 735
ISBN-13: 9780815307136
Subjects: American studies; Cultural studies; Ethnography; Reference; Ethnic Sociology; U.S. - Political And Civil Rights; Sociology; USA; Emigration & Immigration; Minority Studies - Ethnic American; Reference / General; Ethnic Studies - General; United States - General; Encyclopedias; Italian Americans
First sentence: At the beginning of the twentieth century, observers of immigration wondered why so many Italian immigrants from agricultural backgrounds, estimated in 1909 as 67 percent of the total 1.2 million Italian working population in the United States, seemed indifferent to opportunities in rural America.