La Famiglia: Twentieth-Century Transisitons of the Italian-American Family and the Resultant Changes in Gender and Generational Relationships
In the first half of the twentieth century the United States became the recipient of six million Italian immigrants. These men, women and children arrived with few personal possessions but many Old World cultural values regarding family unity, honor, and tradition. This project, coupling historical fact with anecdotal testimony, first explores the turbulent twentieth century journey of the Italian immigrant family, and then examines the sometimes temperate often tumultuous relationship changes that developed between the genders and generations as the immigrants and their American born children assimilated into an evolving American culture.
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