City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston

by Anthony Bak Buccitelli

East Boston has long been known as an Italian neighborhood and Southie as an Irish one, while nearby North Quincy has seen in recent decades an influx of Chinese Americans and immigrants. Such urban spaces in America can become intimately intertwined with ethnic identities (Little Italy, Greektown, Chinatown, Little Havana). Yet local residents often readily acknowledge an underlying diversity--both historically and as a result of more recent changes--that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299307107
• ISBN13: 9780299307103
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"