The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism

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The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism Politics, Labor, and Culture

Edited by Philip Cannistraro and Gerald Meyer

ISBN: 0-275-97891-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97891-4

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360 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 12/30/2003

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Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies

Description: Radicalism had a powerful but largely unacknowledged influence in the Italian-American community. This study brings together 16 selections that restore to Italian-American history the radical experience that has long remained suppressed, but that nevertheless helped shape both the Italian-American community and the American left. The detailed introduction by the volume editors interprets the overall history of Italian-American radicalism and offers extensive bibliographical references on the topic, which the volume editors organize into three sections: labor, politics, and culture. A concluding selection relates the radicalism of Italian Americans to that in other Italian immigrant communities.

In the section on labor, Rudolph Vecoli, among others, traces the rise and decline of radicalism within the Italian-American working class, and Jennifer Guglielmo breaks new ground in uncovering the involvement of Italian American women in the radical movements. In politics, Paul Avrich unveils the violent reaction of anarchists in the United States to the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, and Jackie DiSalvo identifies Father James Groppi as the most important white leader in the Civil Rights movement. On culture, Julia Lisella, Mary Jo Bono, and Edvige Guinta present pioneering interpretive studies on the work of Italian-American women in literature.

Table of Contents:

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

About the Author: 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.

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