Memories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United States, 1884-Present

Wirth, Christa

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“…The funeral of Sacco and Vanzetti brought 10,000 mourners and a procession of 200,000. Will Hays, chairman of the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors of America (and soon-to-be architect of the Hays Code), ordered all 1 See Wirth (2015), p. 94, passim.…”

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“…As ballistic evidence would later show, Sacco, at least, might have been involved in the crime after all. 6 The men retracted the statements they 4 See Young and Kaiser (1985) Roediger (2005), Wirth (2015), Guglielmo and Salerno (2003), and Jacobson (1998). made at their arrest, claiming (perhaps correctly) that the police had not at the time made the charges clear, in plain English.…”

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The Transference and the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti

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2020

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The Transference and the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti

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Why the hyphen? Individual and collective memories of Italianness in the United States at the intersection of class and generation

Wirth

2015

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This three-generation oral history study offers insight into why descendants of Italian migrants to the United States still choose hyphenated identities today. The research project shows how the meaning of Italianness shifts among the interviewees depending on class affiliation: among the middle-class offspring the use of the hyphen can be understood mainly as a reaction to the experienced pressure to give in to Anglo conformity. Among the blue-collar, urban progeny, Italianness expresses itself as a combination of an experienced ethnic environment on the one hand and a symbolic ethnicity on the other.

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Migrations and Nations: Historical Perspectives on Current Border Crossings

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2019

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In this keynote address, I discuss how historians can inform current public debates and how these debates in turn shape the research of historians. As a historian of migration, I argue for doing three things in the way we participate in public discussions and how we go about our research. Firstly, we should apply a long-term perspective when contributing to the public and academic discourse. Secondly, by stepping outside of the «container» of the nation, we can follow a transnational approach, and thirdly, we ought to follow an immigrant-centered perspective. In the first empirical case that follows, I delineate the history of the U.S.-Mexico border. The second case provides insight into the public discussion of migration in Switzerland.

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Memories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United States, 1884-Present

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The Transference and the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti

The Transference and the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti

Why the hyphen? Individual and collective memories of Italianness in the United States at the intersection of class and generation

Migrations and Nations: Historical Perspectives on Current Border Crossings

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