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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction
Cent’ Anni! The Roseto Effect
i nostri paesani: Adriana Trigiani
Part One: 1860–1910
Chapter One: La Famiglia
Our Ancestors: Giuseppe Garibaldi
Documenti: From Carlo Levi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli
Chapter Two: Who Killa da Chief?
Chapter Three: Birds of Passage
Documenti: The Art of B. Amore
Chapter Four: A Secret History
Our Ancestors: Giuseppe Petrosino
Documenti: Black Hand Extortion
Chapter Five: Up from the Ashes
Part Two: 1910–1930
Chapter Six: Becoming American
Our Ancestors: Rudolph Valentino
Documenti: From John Fante’s “The Odyssey of a Wop”
Chapter Seven: Fruits of Thy Labor
Documenti: Personal Correspondence of Arturo Giovannitti
Chapter Eight: Taking the Streets
Chapter Nine: Guilt by Association
Our Ancestors: Angela Bambace
Chapter Ten: A Shortcut
Part Three: 1930–1945
Chapter Eleven: The Little Flower
Documenti: Art Renews a People
Chapter Twelve: Faith in the Fatherland
Our Ancestors: Arturo Toscanini
Chapter Thirteen: Why We Fight
Our Ancestors: Hector Boiardi
i nostri paesani: Gay Talese
Chapter Fourteen: Enemy Aliens
Documenti: Enemy Alien Restrictions
Part Four: 1945–Present
Chapter Fifteen: American Dreams
i nostri paesani: Dion DiMucci
Chapter Sixteen: Cultural Outlaws
Documenti: From Diane Di Prima’s Recollections of My Life as a Woman
Chapter Seventeen: Crime and Prejudice
Our Ancestors: Florence Scala
Chapter Eighteen: Mythmakers
i nostri paesani: David Chase
i nostri paesani: John Turturro
Chapter Nineteen: Breaking Through
i nostri paesani: Nancy Pelosi
Chapter Twenty: We’re All Italian!
A Note on Sources
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index
Also by Maria Laurino
Copyright
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