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The Varieties of Ethnic Experience: Kinship, Class, and Gender Among California Italian-Americans - Couverture souple

Di Leonardo, Micaela

 
9780801492785: The Varieties of Ethnic Experience: Kinship, Class, and Gender Among California Italian-Americans
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0801492785 ISBN 13 : 9780801492785
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1984

Synopsis

Taking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in the United States, this book challenges the model of uniform ethnic family and community culture, and argues for a reconsideration of the meaning of class, kinship, and gender in America's past and present. Micaela di Leonardo focuses on a group of Italian-American families who live in Northern California and who range widely in economic status. Combining the methods of participant-observation, oral history, and economic-historical research, she breaks decisively with the tradition of viewing white ethnicity solely as Eastern, urban, and working class.

The author integrates lively narrative accounts with analysis to give a fresh interpretation of ethnic identity as both materially grounded and individually negotiated. She examines the ways in which different occupational experiences influence individual choice of family or community as the unit of collective ethnic identity, and she considers the boundaries at which individuals, particularly women, work out their personal ethnic identities. Her analysis illuminates the political meanings that the images of ethnic woman and family have taken on in popular discourse.

A provocative study that sets the reflections of a broad range of Italian-Americans in the context of their varied life histories, this book provides an informed commentary on family, class, culture, and gender in American life.

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À propos de l'auteur

Micaela di Leonardo is a consultant with the National Academy of Sciences and has taught at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
1984
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801492785
ISBN 13 
9780801492785
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
262
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Personne responsable
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