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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Italians"”.
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Discourse Analysis of Ethnonyms for Black Italians on YouTube
… given to an ethnic group, are assigned to Black Italians in online discourse on YouTube. In this research, comments were analyzed from two YouTube videos that comprise of Black Italians who discuss their identity and the ethnonyms they prefer. ZERO is the first Netflix Italian series that centers …
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Italians in South Africa : challenges in the representation of an Italian identity
Through a selection of material written by Italians in South Africa, this study aims to discuss the difficulties and challenges faced by Italian emigrant writers in representing their identity. The study places itself in the context of other studies in the field of i/emigrant, minority and ethnic …
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Italians and the New Byzantium: Lombard and Venetian Architects in Muscovy, 1472-1539
<p>This dissertation explores how early modern Russian identity was shaped by the built environment and, likewise, how the built environment was a result of an emerging Russian identity. I focus on the years 1472 to 1539 because they were crucial to the formation of this early modern Russian …
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English representations of Italians in the Risorgimento period : their use in the construction of nationality and masculinity
… study examines the range of representations of Italians at the period whenthey were striving for their own nationhood, and interrogates such images toillustrate how the middle-class English reader thus constructed his own nationalityand masculinity. Aspects of the relationship between the two …
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Italians doing local theology: a multisite empirical inquiry in Piedmont towns with special reference to Antonio Gramsci
From whom and how Christians apprehend their Christian confession of faith, metabolising the Gospel where they live is a thorny issue in the discipline of Mission Studies, which has primarily addressed it under the rubric of contextualization. The discourse on Doing Local Theology (DLT) started in …
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The influence of culture on pro-environmental activities : comparing English, French and Italian Canadians
… sample were divided into three groups: strong Italians, Italians acculturated toward the English culture, and Italians acculturated toward the French culture. In order to achieve the goal of our study, the three ethnic groups (studied in two separate groups, English/English Italians/strong …
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Tapes and testimony : making the local history of Italians in the Western Cape in the first half of the 20th century
The history of long distance immigrant communities, particularly those with few or no written documentary records, is often cited as an obvious example for oral historical enquiry. Such groupings would be represented by the Greek, Portuguese and Jewish as well as the Italian population in South …
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An Inhospitable Land: Anti-Italian Sentiment and Violence in Louisiana, 1891-1924
… assimilate into their new surroundings. However, Italians held little understanding of race relations between blacks and whites in Louisiana as well as in the South. Because of this ignorance, the Italians suffered social, political, and racial discrimination at the hands of the white power …
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They were Triomphanti: The Italian Homesteading Experience in Saskatchewan, 1896-1930
… turn of the twentieth century has asserted that Italians were not permanent homesteading farmers. This is in part a reflection of prejudices at both the governmental and popular levels that were held at the time. They believed that Italians were transient migrants and only suitable for labour …
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Family Arrest and Separation During the Holocaust in Italy
… and the effect explanatory of variables-such as Italians or foreign born families, nationality of perpetrators, gender, and age-on the degree and frequency of family separation and overall vulnerability. Although aggregate statistics do not show considerable differences between individuals and …
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L’immigrazione meridionale a Torino nell’Italia del miracolo economico. Il caso della Sardegna durante la stagione della Rinascita
… nation and the lack of jobs pushed the Italians to emigrate to Europe and northern Italy to obtain better living conditions. The emigration of Italian workers was at the base of Italian foreign policy and the President of the Italian Government Alcide De Gasperi, who shook economic …
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Community, Place, and Cultural Battles: Associational Life in Central Italy, 1945-1968
… the everyday experience of tens of thousands of Italians at a time when social, economic and geographical transformations were upending their everyday lives, 1945-1968. This dissertation examines facets of these transformations: the changing shape of cities, increasing mobility of people, …
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Italian Australians, the church, war and fascism in Melbourne, 1919-1945
… Italian Jesuit fathers who were chaplains to the Italians in Melbourne, Vincenzo de Francesco (1921-1934) and Ugo (Hugh) Modotti (1938-1945) and their influence in the life of the Catholic Church during 1919 to 1945. Those who do write about the Italian contribution begin their assessment after …
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La Tortosa del segle XVI : Una ciutat del Renaixement
… com a influx de comerç amb els principals ports italians.
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1954, Addio Trieste ... the Triestine community of Melbourne
… simply part of an overall migratory movement of Italians who took advantage of Australia's post-war immigration program, but their migration is also the reflection of an important period in the history of what today is known as the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region. By examining the migrant experience …
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Building the border: The treatment of immigrants in France, 1884-1914
… ""dual labor market."" In French Lorraine, Italians formed an industrial labor underclass in mining and construction. This work analyzes the French response to this proletarian immigration: the construction of a citizen-foreigner border. The border was a social structure which functioned …
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James Cagney, Outside/inside: Assimilation of a New York City star in 1930s Hollywood
… influence over other New York ethnic newcomers (Italians, Jews, Poles, and Slavs). To star studies I combine close readings of thirteen 1930s films (including Blonde Crazy (1931), Mayor of Hell (1933), Here Comes the Navy (1934), and Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)) with a concern for linking text …
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