Stories, Streets, and Saints

Stories, Streets, and Saints

Photographs and Oral Histories from Boston's North End

Riccio, Anthony V.; Pasto, James S.; Dello Russo, Nicholas

State University of New York Press

10/2022

434

Mole

Inglês

9781438490083

15 a 20 dias

227

Descrição não disponível.
Acknowledgments

In Memory of My Friend, Anthony Riccio: 1952-2022
Tommy Damigella

Foreword
Nicholas Dello Russo

1. Life in Southern Italy at the Turn of the Century

2. Leaving Italy for the Promise of America

3. The Journey to Boston

4. A New Life in the North End

5. Becoming an American Citizen

6. The Italian Mother

7. The Italian Father

8. The Oral Tradition: Family Stories, Dialects, Folktales, and Prayers

9. Italy and the North End in World War I

10. Garlic Necklaces, Camphor Bags, and Shots of Anisette: The Spanish Flu Pandemic in the North End

11. The Molasses Explosion

12. Italian American Street Life

13. Going to School

14. Justice Denied: Sacco and Vanzetti

15. The Depression in the North End

16. Seamstresses and Factory Workers: Italian American Women at Work

17. Making It in the North End: Italian American Men at Work

18. Making Wine, Drinking Wine

19. Life in the Tenements

20. Sicilian Fishermen in the North End

21. Miracles, Societies, and Processions

22. Christmas in the North End

23. Irish and Italians

24. Refugees in the North End: West Enders Tell Their Stories

25. Local Politics

26. Gangsters and Racketeers

27. Life in a Cold-Water Flat

28. The Changing North End

29. The Old Waterfront and the New Boston

30. Poor Tenant, Poor Landlord

31. Meglio Pane e Cipolla, e Sola

Epilogue: Anthony's Gift to Us
James S. Pasto

Notes
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.