Yard Shrines and Sidewalk Altars of New York's Italian-Americans

Sciorra, Joseph

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“…3. For other distinctive architectural features of Italian homes in North America, see Sciorra (1989) and Del Giudice (1993). 4.…”

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Two Stoves, Two Refrigerators,Due Cucine: The Italian immigrant home with two kitchens

Pascali

2006

Gender, Place & Culture

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Many Italian North Americans have two kitchens in their homes: one on the first floor, and a second in the basement. While this set-up is pervasive in cities across North America, homes with two kitchens are uncommon in Italy. This article explores the significance of the basement kitchen in first-generation Italian homes in Canada and the United States. Examining homes of various typologies in and around Toronto, Montreal and New York, purchased by Italian immigrants between 1950 and 1980, this paper argues that for Italian women the basement kitchen is a liberating space, free from the constraints of formality and traditional room divisions.

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“…3. For other distinctive architectural features of Italian homes in North America, see Sciorra (1989) and Del Giudice (1993). 4.…”

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Two Stoves, Two Refrigerators,Due Cucine: The Italian immigrant home with two kitchens

Pascali

2006

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…Manzo (1983) expressed concern for the future of these shrines in Italian homes because of outside forces and assimilation policies. However, as demonstrated, first by Sciorra (1989) and later by Inguanti (2010), after almost 30 years, this religious landscape has maintained its presence. In fact, in his analysis of the Italian neighbourhood in New York City, Sciorra (1989) found that Italian families personalise and beautify their front yards by placing stucco shrines, brick chapels and stone grottos hosting religious figures, for example, the Sacred Heart, the Immaculate Conception and Saint Anthony of Padua.…”

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“…However, as demonstrated, first by Sciorra (1989) and later by Inguanti (2010), after almost 30 years, this religious landscape has maintained its presence. In fact, in his analysis of the Italian neighbourhood in New York City, Sciorra (1989) found that Italian families personalise and beautify their front yards by placing stucco shrines, brick chapels and stone grottos hosting religious figures, for example, the Sacred Heart, the Immaculate Conception and Saint Anthony of Padua. These elements have also crossed the domestic boundaries and can be seen in public streetscapes of the Italian neighbourhood in New York.…”

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Cultural influences on the yards of Italian migrants’ houses built in Brisbane (Australia)

Furlan

Faggion

2020

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Italian migrants, as well as diverse migrant groups, brought with them cultural practices and a way of life, which are nowadays part of the multicultural Australian built environment and society. This research study focuses on the external yards of domestic dwellings built in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Brisbane by the Italian migrants. Namely, it is argued that the external yards of migrants’ houses are embedded by cultural meanings. The research study is of a qualitative nature and, as primary sources of data, uses (1) semi-structured interviews, (2) photo-elicitation interviews and (3) focus group discussion, which were conducted both in Australia with 21st-generation Italian migrants, and in Italy with 10 informants indigenous to the Veneto region, where they built their homes. Visual data about the houses were collected with (4) photographs and drawings. This paper explores the activities occurring inside migrants’ houses in Brisbane, highlighting the meaning of the activities and the settings where these activities are performed. Through the study of these meanings, it is revealed that the various activities are expressions of the culture, as an accepted way of doing things and/or a way of life, of the country of origin of the respondents.

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“…During the interviews, the pride and joy expressed by the male respondents in enumerating the various work carried on the house was noticed. As observed by Sciorra (1989), pride in craftsmanship and the labour of one's hands is central to the Italian ethos and is especially important to Italian migrants artisans and workers. This holds true also for the Italian migrants interviewed in this study, and it is demonstrated, not only, through their interviews, but also by the photographs in family albums, depicting husbands working on the houses with the help of their friends (see Figure 3).…”

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Cultural Meanings Embedded in the Façade of Italian Migrants’ Houses in Brisbane, Australia

Faggion

Furlan

2017

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In the Post-WWII period, while (4) it is argued that the façade of migrants' houses is embedded by cultural meanings. The study is of qualitative nature and as primary sources of data uses (1) semi-structured interviews, (2) photo-elicitation interviews and (3) focus group discussion, which were conducted both in Australia with twenty first-generation Italian migrants, and in Italy with ten informants, indigenous to the Veneto region, where they built their homes. Visual data about the houses was collected with

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Yard Shrines and Sidewalk Altars of New York's Italian-Americans

Cited by 7 publications

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Two Stoves, Two Refrigerators,Due Cucine: The Italian immigrant home with two kitchens

Two Stoves, Two Refrigerators,Due Cucine: The Italian immigrant home with two kitchens

Cultural influences on the yards of Italian migrants’ houses built in Brisbane (Australia)

Cultural Meanings Embedded in the Façade of Italian Migrants’ Houses in Brisbane, Australia

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