Making Italian America: Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities

by Simone Cinotto

Book Overview

How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land--and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic marketing to explore these questions by focusing on the case of an ethnic group whose material culture and lifestyles have been central to American life: Italian Americans.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823256235
• ISBN13: 9780823256235
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"