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A compelling social history of a vibrant immigrant community, told through interviews and photographs.
Using interviews and photographs, Anthony Riccio provides a vital supplement to our understanding of the Italian immigrant experience in the United States. In conversations around kitchen tables and in social clubs, members of New Haven's Italian American community evoke the rhythms of the streets and the pulse of life in the old ethnic neighborhoods. They describe the events that shaped the twentieth century-the Spanish Flu pandemic, the Great Depression, and World War II-along with the private histories of immigrant women who toiled under terrible working conditions in New Haven's shirt factories, who sacrificed dreams of education and careers for the economic well-being of their families. This is a compelling social, cultural, and political history of a vibrant immigrant community.
Foreword by Mary Ann McDonald
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Life in Italy
2. The Journey to America: Life on the Ships
3. A New Life in New Haven
4. Becoming American Citizens
5. Going to School in New Haven
6. The Spanish Flu Pandemic Strikes New Haven
7. Justice Denied: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
8. Letters to Loved Ones
9. Fables and Proverbs
10. Farming Life in New Haven
11. Working Life Experiences
12. New Haven’s Garment Workers: Life in the Sweatshops
13. Workers Organize: The Labor Movement in New Haven
14. Northerners and Southerners
15. Going Back to Italy
16. The Depression in New Haven
17. Witches, Healers and Herbs
18. Italian Feasts
19. Italian Societies
20. Sports Stories
21. Artists and Singers
22. Meat Markets, Pastry Shops, Bakeries and Pizzerias
23. Holiday Celebrations
24. Vanishing Dialects
25. Life by the Sea
26. New Haven’s Italian Americans in World War II
27. The Franklin Street Fire
28. Life in the Annex
29. Life in the Wooster Square Neighborhood
30. Life in the Hill
31. Life in the Forbes Avenue Neighborhood
32. Life in Fair Haven
33. Life in the Legion Avenue Neighborhood
34. Highways and Urban Renewal: New Haven Forever Changed
Notes
Bibliography
Afterword by Philip Langdon