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Hopelessly Alien
- The Italian Immigration Experience in Chicago Heights
Engelsk Hardback
Hopelessly Alien
- The Italian Immigration Experience in Chicago Heights
Engelsk Hardback

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Hopelessly Alien is an in-depth study of Italian immigration to Chicago Heights, Illinois, between 1910 and 1950. Drawing upon oral histories, interviews, historical documents, and census materials, Louis Corsino examines the critical concept of hope, which most immigration studies have cast in privatized, psychological terms as the motivation to emigrate in search of a better life. This investigation offers a more contentious, sociological perspective, depicting hope as both an ideological lure to recruit and manage the "foreign element" and as a resource immigrants employed to purchase acceptance and avoid a disparaging label as a "hopelessly alien" stranger. These dialectical processes are illustrated through the Italian immigrants'' pursuit of occupational mobility and homeownership, and the appropriation of their children''s hopes. Each became forms of cultural capital that demonstrated a public commitment to the American ethos of "joyful striving." Each provided measures of success, but these individual pursuits came at the expense of upsetting the necessary tension between individual and communal hopes.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
188
ISBN-13:
9781438497648
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1438497644
Udg. Dato:
1 maj 2024
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
1 maj 2024
Forfatter(e):
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