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Dominican University of California
La Famiglia: Twentieth-Century Transisitons of the Italian-American Family and the Resultant Changes in Gender and Generational Relationships
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>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.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master's Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Humanities
- Year
- 1999
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- McCready, Mary Stella
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Patricia Dougherty, OP, PhD
- Philip Novak, PhD
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholar.dominican.edu/humanities-print-theses/214
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholar.dominican.edu:humanities-print-theses-1213