Italian American History

Catalog description

This course traces changing perspectives and historical change over four centuries in a distinctive ethnic community. Topics covered include the age of exploration, early American attitudes toward Italy, nativism, the Great Migration, urban settlement patterns, ethnicity in American Catholicism, anarchism, Fascism, the Mafia, assimilation, mothers and daughters, influence on popular music, depictions in film and TV, Italian Americans and African Americans, the move to the suburbs, and the future of ethnicity.