1st Edition
Monte Carmelo An Italian-American Community in the Bronx
By Anthony L. LaRuffa
Copyright 1988
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1988. There are somewhat fewer than 12,000,000 Italian-Americans of both single ancestry and multiple ancestry living in the United States. They comprise 5.3 percent of the total population. This is a study of one particular segment of the larger metropolitan region. Located in the central part of the Bronx, Monte Carmelo’s beginning as an Italian-American community dates back... Read more
1. Historical Prologue, Part I: The Italian Background 2. Historical Prologue, Part II: The Development of an Italian-American Enclave in the Bronx 3. The Human Community: People, Places, and Happenings 4. Family Profiles 5. Structures and Symbols of Community Life 6. Italian-American Ethnicity: Myths, Metaphors, and the Mafia Image
Biography
Anthony L. LaRuffa Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York
