Acknowledgments Introduction: Italian American Radicalism: An Interpretive History by Philip V. Cannistraro and Gerald Meyer Labor The Making and Un-Making of an Italian Working Class in the United States, 1915-1945, by Rudolf J. Vecoli War Among the Anarchists: The Galleanisti's Campaign Against Carlo Tresca by Nunzio Pernicone Italian Workers on the Waterfront: The New York Harbor Strikes of 1907 and 1919 by Calvin Winslow Donne Ribelli: Recovering the History of Italian Women's Radicalism in the United States by Jennifer Guglielmo From Working Class Radicalism to Cold-War Anti-Communism: The Case of the Italian Locals of the ILGWU by Charles Zappia Politics Sacco and Vanzetti's Revenge by Paul Avrich No God, No Master: Italian Anarchists and the Individual Workers of the World by Salvatore Salerno Italian Radicals and Union Activists in San Francisco, 1900-1920, by Paola A. Sensi-Isolani Italian Americans and the American Communist Party by Gerald Meyer Father James Groppi: The Militant Humility of a Civil Rights Activist by Jackie Di Salvo Mario Savio: Resurrecting an Italian American Radical by Gil Fagiani Culture The Radical World of Ybor City, Florida by Gary R. Mormino Follow the Red Brick Road: Recovering Radical Traditions of Italian American Writers by Fred Gardaphe Behind the Mask: Signs Radicalism in the Work of Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni by Julia Lisella Rooted to Family: Italian American Women's Radical Novels by Mary Jo Bona Where They Come From: Italian American Women Writers as Public Intellectuals by Edvige Giunta Conclusion: Italian American Radicalism in Global Perspective by Donna R. Gabaccia
The entire range of radical thought and activity of Italian immigrants and their descendants in the United States is explored.
PHILIP CANNISTRARO is Distinguished Professor of Italian American Studies at Queens College and the Graduate School, City University of New York. An authority on the Italian American experience and the history of modern Italy, he has written numerous books, including works on fascist cultural policy, a biography of Margherita Sarfatti, and Blackshirts in Little Italy. Cannistraro has also edited The Italians of New York: Five Centuries of Struggle and Achievement and is coauthor of a major college textbook, The Western Perspective: A History of Civilization in the West. He is currently writing a biography of Benito Mussolini. GERALD MEYER is Professor Emeritus of History at Hostos Community College, City University of New York, and author of Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician, 1902-1954. He has also written more than 40 articles, reviews, and encyclopedia entries on subjects ranging from Italian American educator Leonard Covello, to the history of Little Italies, and aspects of the Italian American encounter with the American Left. Meyer lectures widely and is an editor of Science & Society and The Italian American Review. He is currently working on a history of the American Labor Party.
.,.".Fills a void in the study of Italian-American history and
culture by offering its reader a series of analytical and
interpretive essays on radical Italian America. No one has yet to
offer such a wide-spread panorama that has at its base the
knowledge, intellectual expertise, and critical acumen of the who's
who of Italian-American studies that this collection offers, a
representative list of more than three generations of scholars
working in the field....A required book for anyone's library, even
those remotely interested in the subject."-Anthony Tamburri
Professor of Italian, Florida Atlantic University
"From the thorough and incisive introduction by its editors, who
provide nothing less than an indispensable contribution for anyone
seeking to understand the Italian-American experience, this
collection represents a long overdue correction of a great
omission--the lost world of Italian American radicalism--that
invaluably expands and enriches the field of Italian-American
studies."-Richard N. Juliani Professor of Sociology, Villanova
University
"[T]his book is at once stimulating and thought-provoking, and
avoids easy simplifications of complex interpretative categories
(such as Americanization): the immigrant radicals took symbols and
hybridized them, combining the language and ideology of
citizenship, rights and national self-determination with those of
class-consciousness, solidarity, and internationalism. What is
important, therefore--as Donna R. Gabaccia says in her
conclusion--is to re-read the history of the Italian radical
community not as "a world unto itself," but as "one important
dimension of a global history of population movements out of
Italy." The book offers a wealth of pointers in that direction,
laying the foundations for a still-to-be-written exhaustive
reconstruction of the history of the Italian-American workers'
movement."-Science & Society
?[A]n important contribution that not only outlines an aspect of
the political life in Italian American communities but also casts
further light on the life of immigrant minorities in the U.S.
Left.?-The Journal of American History
?[T]his book is at once stimulating and thought-provoking, and
avoids easy simplifications of complex interpretative categories
(such as Americanization): the immigrant radicals took symbols and
hybridized them, combining the language and ideology of
citizenship, rights and national self-determination with those of
class-consciousness, solidarity, and internationalism. What is
important, therefore--as Donna R. Gabaccia says in her
conclusion--is to re-read the history of the Italian radical
community not as "a world unto itself," but as "one important
dimension of a global history of population movements out of
Italy." The book offers a wealth of pointers in that direction,
laying the foundations for a still-to-be-written exhaustive
reconstruction of the history of the Italian-American workers'
movement.?-Science & Society
?[T]his is a commendable collection of essays, which takes up the
concept of radical activity in impressively broad and compelling
ways. It is a must for the shelves of anyone studying not only
Italian American radicalism, but labor and the Left in the United
States in general.?-Journal of American Ethnic History
?In The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism, Philip V.
Cannistraro and Gerald Meyer have assembled a collection of essays
by academics and independent scholars chronicling the struggles and
visions, successes and failures, of this fiery lot of radicals and
their many adherents who shook local companies and communities, and
often the nation itself, to their foundations as they fought for
social justice.?-Unbound
?These essays recover a forgotten aspect of the Italian immigrant
communities in the US....The introduction, which is a broad
interpretive overview of Italian American radicalism by the
editors, is alone worth the book's price. While the radical
heritage of Italian immigrants perhaps was never quite as "lost" as
the editors claim, these essays will make it difficult to ignore.
Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and
above.?-Choice
"ÝA¨n important contribution that not only outlines an aspect of
the political life in Italian American communities but also casts
further light on the life of immigrant minorities in the U.S.
Left."-The Journal of American History
"ÝT¨his is a commendable collection of essays, which takes up the
concept of radical activity in impressively broad and compelling
ways. It is a must for the shelves of anyone studying not only
Italian American radicalism, but labor and the Left in the United
States in general."-Journal of American Ethnic History
"In The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism, Philip V.
Cannistraro and Gerald Meyer have assembled a collection of essays
by academics and independent scholars chronicling the struggles and
visions, successes and failures, of this fiery lot of radicals and
their many adherents who shook local companies and communities, and
often the nation itself, to their foundations as they fought for
social justice."-Unbound
"[A]n important contribution that not only outlines an aspect of
the political life in Italian American communities but also casts
further light on the life of immigrant minorities in the U.S.
Left."-The Journal of American History
"[T]his is a commendable collection of essays, which takes up the
concept of radical activity in impressively broad and compelling
ways. It is a must for the shelves of anyone studying not only
Italian American radicalism, but labor and the Left in the United
States in general."-Journal of American Ethnic History
"These essays recover a forgotten aspect of the Italian immigrant
communities in the US....The introduction, which is a broad
interpretive overview of Italian American radicalism by the
editors, is alone worth the book's price. While the radical
heritage of Italian immigrants perhaps was never quite as "lost" as
the editors claim, these essays will make it difficult to ignore.
Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and
above."-Choice
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