Introduction:
A New History for a New Millennium
<i>William J. Connell </i>
<b>Part I - Explorations and Foundations</b>
1) Italians in the Early Atlantic World
<i>William J. Connell</i>
2) From the Pilgrim Fathers to the Founding Fathers: Italy and America
<i>Edoardo Tortarolo</i>
3) When They Were Few: Italians in America, 1800-1850
<i>John Paul Russo</i>
4) America's Garibaldi: The United States and Italian Unification
<i>Don H. Doyle</i>
5) Dante Alighieri and the <i>Divine Comedy </i>in Nineteenth-Century America
<i>Dennis Looney</i>
<b>Part II - The Great Migration and Creating Little Italies</b>
6) Why Italians Left Italy: The Physics and Politics of Migration, 1870-1920
<i>Maddalena Tirabassi</i>
7) The Silence of the Atlantians: Contact, Conflict, Consolidation (1880-1913)
<i>Peter Carravetta</i>
8) The Little Italies of the Early 1900s: From the Reports of Amy Bernardy<b> </b>
<i>Maddalena Tirabassi</i>
9) Interpreting Little Italies: Ethnicity as an Accident of Geography<b></b><i>Maria Susanna Garroni </i>
10) Culture and Identity on the Table: Italian American Food as Social History
Simone Cinotto
11) Italian Americans and Their Religious Experience
<i>Richard N. Juliani</i>
12) Italian Americans and Race During the Era of Mass Immigration
Peter G. Vellon
13) Discrimination, Prejudice and Italian American History
<i>Salvatore J. LaGumina</i>
14) The Languages of Italian Americans
<i>Nancy C. Carnevale</i>
15) Italian American Book Publishing and Book Selling
<i>James J. Periconi</i>
16) From Margins to Vanguard to Mainstream: Italian Americans and the Labor Movement
<i>Marcella Bencivenni </i>
17) The Sacco and Vanzetti Case and the Psychology of Political Violence
<i>Michael Topp</i>
18) A Diary in America and a Death in Rome <i>Francesco Durante</i>
<b>Part III - Becoming American and Contesting America</b>
19) The Bumpy Road Toward Political Incorporation, 1920-1984
<i>Stefano Luconi</i>
20) Italian Emigration, Remittances, and the Rise of Made-in-Italy
<i>Mark I. Choate</i>
21) Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Italian America
<i>Stanislao G. Pugliese</i>
22) World War II Changed Everything
<i>Dominic Candeloro</i>
23) Mothers and Daughters in Italian American Narratives
<i>Mary Jo Bona</i>
24) The Italian American Family and Transnational Circuits
<i>JoAnne Ruvoli </i>
25) Groovin': A Riff on Italian Americans in Popular Music and Jazz
<i>John Gennari</i>
26) Italian Americans and the Cinema
<i>Giuliana Muscio</i>
27) Italian Americans and Television
<i>Anthony Julian Tamburri</i>
28) Italian Americans in Sport
<i>Lawrence Baldassaro</i>
29) Organized Crime and Italian Americans
<i>Antonio Nicaso</i>
<b>Part IV - Postwar to Post-Ethnic?</b>
30) Italian Americans and Assimilation
<i>Richard Alba</i>
31) Italian Americans in the Suburbs: Transplanting Ethnicity to the Crabgrass Frontier
<i>Donald Tricarico</i>
32) "What Ever Happened to Little Italy?"
<i>Jerome Krase</i>
33) Italian American Femininities
<i>Ilaria Serra</i>
34) Italian American Masculinities
<i>Fred Gardaphe</i>
35) <i>Fuori per sempre</i>: The Coming Out of Gay and Lesbian Italian Americans
<i>George De Stefano</i>
36) Immigration from Italy since the 1990s
<i>Teresa Fiore</i>
37) Contemporary Italian American Identities<b></b><i>Rosemary Serra</i>
38) The Orphanage: Encounters in Transnational Space
<i>Robert Viscusi</i>
Conclusion:
The Future of Our Past
<em>Stanislao G. Pugliese</em>