The Italian Americans of New York and the New Deal: Ethnicity and Class in Tension

The impact of New Deal social policies on the Italian American community of New York City: politics, unions, housing, education, and culture

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Simone Cinotto è ricercatore di Storia Contemporanea presso l'Università di Scienze Gastronomiche, dove dirige i Master in "Food Culture and Communications" e "Italian Gastronomy & Tourism", e fa parte del Centro Interuniversitario di studi americani “Piero Bairati” presso le Università di Torino e del Piemonte Orientale. Nell'autunno 2008 sta insegnando due corsi in Italian American Studies presso New York University. È autore di Una famiglia che mangia insieme: cibo ed etnicità nella comunità italoamericana di New York, 1920-1940 (Torino, 2001). E’ stato coordinatore scientifico di un’iniziativa di storia in pubblico riguardante l’emigrazione otto-novecentesca da una valle biellese. La pubblicazione più recente è il volume Terra soffice uva nera: vitivinicoltori piemontesi in California prima e dopo il Proibizionismo (Torino, 2008). Sta lavorando a diversi progetti: un volume sul mondo mentale di un immigrato piemontese negli Stati Uniti del primo Novecento, un saggio sull'impatto del New Deal sugli italoamericani di New York (con Gerald J. Meyer), e una storia del consumo tra gli italoamericani.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Primary Sources

--- ARCHIVAL MATERIAL ---
Leonard Covello Papers, 1907-1974, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
Vito Marcantonio Papers, 1935-1953, New York Public Library
Federal Writers' Project, The Italians of New York, Municipal Archives of New York City
Frederick Thrasher, Final Report on the Jefferson Park Branch of the Boys’ Club of New York, 1931, New York University Library

--- GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS ---
Citizens' Housing Council of New York, Harlem Housing, New York, August 1939
D'Alesandre, J.J., Occupational Trends of Italians in New York, Bulletin n. 8, Casa Italiana Educational Bureau, 1934
New York City, Department of Health, Committee on Neighborhood Health Development, Health, Social and Economic Conditions in Health Area 20, East Harlem Health District, New York, 1942
New York, City, Mayor's Committee on City Planning, East Harlem Community Study, New York, 1937
Shedd, W.B., Italian Population in New York, Bulletin n. 7, Casa Italian Education Bureau, 1934
Welfare Council of New York City Research Bureau, Heads of Family by Color, Nativity and Country of Birth of Foreign Born Head, by Health Areas, New York City 1930, Studies n. 41, 1934
Welfare Council of New York City Research Bureau, Population in Health Areas by Color, Nativity, Parentage, Sex, and Age, New York City 1930, Studies n. 38, 1931

--- DISSERTATIONS ---
Concistre, Marie Jospehine, Adult Education in a Local Area: A Study of a Decade in the Life and Education of the Dult Italian Immigrant in East Harlem, Ph.D., New York University, 1944
Tilley, Margaret Campbell, The Boy Scout Movement in East Harlem, Educat. D., New York University, 1935
Anderson, Nels, The Social Antecedents of a Slum: A Developmental Study of the East Harlem Area of Manhattan Island, New York City, Ph.D., New York University, 1930
Guglielmo, Jennifer Mary, Negotiating Gender, Race, and Coalition: Italian Women and Working-Class Politics in New York City, 1880--1945, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2003
Sollins, Irving, A Socio-Statistical Analysis of Boys’ Club Membership, Ph.D., New York University, 1936
Friedman, Edwin, East Harlem Community Study: 1940-1950, M.A., New York University, 1954
Freeman, Robert Charles, Exploring the path of community change in East Harlem, 1870-1970: A multifactor approach, Ph.D., Fordham University, 1994
Marsh, May Case, The Life and Work of the Churches in an Interstitial Area, Ph.D., New York University, 1932

--- PUBLISHED BOOKS AND ARTICLES ---
Reed, D., Lesiure Time of Girls in a Little Italy, Portland, OR, 1932

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