Cooking from the Italians of Newark, New Jersey an Ethnic Experience

Cooking from the Italians of Newark, New Jersey an Ethnic Experience
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Publisher : AuthorHouse
Total Pages : 122
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ISBN-10 : 9781438941585
ISBN-13 : 1438941587
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Cooking from the Italians of Newark, New Jersey an Ethnic Experience by : Barone Callah Elizabeth Barone Callahan

Newark, New Jersey was a thriving Italian American community with ties to southern Italy and Sicily, with waves of immigrants coming from 1870 -1950. According to New Jersey census data from 2000 Italian Americans are the largest ethnic group in the state. There are two million citizens in the state that claim Italian descent. Many of these residents have ancestors who lived in Newark's First Ward. The purpose of writing this book is both biographical and cultural and also the need to preserve recipes as a link to the history of a neighborhood that vanished five decades ago. Many recipes have been verbally passed down and the primary focus of the book is to preserve them for future generations. Although, the book is original to a specific geographical area the peasant food described in the recipes has become very popular in upscale Italian restaurants. The food is healthy and delicious. The "old neighborhood" was teaming with specialty shops including grocery stores, cheese shops, bread stores, bakeries, meat markets, a chicken market, and colorful peddlers. There was a pizza parlor that always used linen tablecloths and napkins. Every house had a "stoop" (colloquial name for small front porch) and on every "stoop" was a favorite chair often carried down several flights of stairs and a Nona or Zia would be seated watching over the neighborhood. These immigrants took great pride in their homes and community and knew everyone on the block and provided an informal but effective "neighborhood watch." When they were not sitting on the "stoop" they could be seen sweeping the sidewalks. One ritual that has faded from the experience of Italian Americans is Sunday Dinner with "Sunday Gravy". It was a time when families sat and ate at a leisurely pace with grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins gathered in one home. It is hoped that COOKING FROM THE ITALIANS OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - AN ETHNIC EXPERIENCE will provide each reader with the collective memories of sitting at the table with family.

Italian American Writers on New Jersey

Italian American Writers on New Jersey
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 0813533171
ISBN-13 : 9780813533179
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Italian American Writers on New Jersey by : Jennifer Gillan

This anthology gathers fiction, poetry, memoirs, oral histories, and journalistic pieces by some of the best writers to chronicle the Italian American experience in the Garden State. These works focus on ethnic identity and the distinctive culture of New Jersey, which has long been home to a large and vital Italian American community. Filled with passion, humor, and grace, these writings depict a variety of experiences, including poignant but failed attempts at conformity and the alienation often felt by ethnic Americans. The authors also speak of the strength gained through the preservation of their communities and the realization that it is often the appreciation of their heritage that helps them to succeed. Although presented from the vantage point of only one ethnic group, this book addresses in microcosm the complexities of American identity, depicting situations and conveying emotions that will resonate with people of all immigrant ancestries. Among the many writers featured are Gay Talese, Bill Ervolino, Tom Perrotta, Louise DeSalvo, Carole Mazo, Diane di Prima, and Maria Laurino. Each of the contributors provides a fresh perspective on the diversity, complexity, and richness of the Italian American experience. Publication of this book is made possible in part by a grant from the Institute of Italian and Italian American Heritage Studies, State of New Jersey.

Newark's Little Italy

Newark's Little Italy
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 0813527570
ISBN-13 : 9780813527574
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Newark's Little Italy by : Michael Immerso

Michael Immerso traces the history of the First Ward from the arrival of the first Italian in the 1870s until 1953 when the district was uprooted to make way for urban renewal. Richly illustrated with photographs culled from the albums and shoeboxes in the private collections of hundreds of former First Ward families from all across the United States, the book documents the evolution of the district from a small immigrant quarter into a complex Italian-American neighborhood that thrived during the first half of this century. Book jacket.

Guido Culture and Italian American Youth

Guido Culture and Italian American Youth
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 9783030032937
ISBN-13 : 3030032930
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Guido Culture and Italian American Youth by : Donald Tricarico

From Saturday Night Fever to Jersey Shore, Italian American youth in New York City have appropriated—and been appropriated by—popular American culture. Here, Donald Tricarico investigates how Italian ethnicity has been used to fashion Guido as a distinct youth style that signals inclusion in popular American culture and, simultaneously, the making of a new ethnic subject. Emerging from a wave of Italian immigration after World War II in outer borough neighborhoods such as Bensonhurst, the story of the Guido is an Italian American story, symbolizing the negotiation of a negatively privileged ethnicity within American society. Tricarico takes up questions about the definition of Guido, the role of disco, and the identity politics of Jersey Shore in order to reconsider the significance of Guido for the study of Italian American ethnicity.

Not in a Tuscan Villa

Not in a Tuscan Villa
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Publisher : Chartiers Creek Press
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 0615762530
ISBN-13 : 9780615762531
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Not in a Tuscan Villa by : John Petralia

Newly retired and looking for more than a vacation, John and Nancy Petralia intrepidly pack a few suitcases and head to the "perfect" Italian city for a year. Within days their dream becomes a nightmare. After residing in two Italian cities, negotiating the roads and health care, discovering art, friends, food and customs, the Petralias learn more than they anticipate -- about Italy, themselves, what it means to be American, and what's important in life.

Italians of Northeastern Pennsylvania

Italians of Northeastern Pennsylvania
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 0738536393
ISBN-13 : 9780738536392
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Italians of Northeastern Pennsylvania by : Stephanie Longo

Pictorial history of the Italian community of northeastern Pennsylvania, one of the region's largest and most visible ethnic groups; covers the immigration experience and offers a glimpse into the lives of today's Italian-Americans of northeastern Pennsylvania.

The Italian Immigrant Experience

The Italian Immigrant Experience
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Publisher : Thunder Bay, Ont. : Canadian Italian Historical Association
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015016992565
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Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The Italian Immigrant Experience by : Canadian Italian Historical Association

Italians of Greater Paterson

Italians of Greater Paterson
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Total Pages : 130
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ISBN-10 : 1540238210
ISBN-13 : 9781540238214
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Italians of Greater Paterson by : Jennifer Tiritilli Ranu

In the early 1900s, the Little Italy, Riverside, Stony Road, and Sandy Hill sections of Paterson, all within walking distance of booming factories and mills, became neighborhoods that offered Italian immigrants the opportunity to be near employment and to have a better life for themselves and their families. Paterson's Italians always helped each other during tough times and contributed to making Paterson a great city and a great place to live. Cooking Italian recipes for fun holidays; gardening in the backyard; and honoring heroes of the military, politics, sports, and the arts are valuable traditions and customs passed down through generations. The works of Gaetano Federici, a sculptor from Paterson, reflect the city's history, especially in front of Paterson City Hall and at St. Michael the Archangel Church. Floyd Vivino entertains audiences and almost always mentions Paterson in his shows, while actor Lou Costello proudly reminded his audience at the end of almost every show that he was from Paterson. De Franco's Lock and Safe, Peragallo's Organ Company, and Ordini Pools are just a few family-owned Italian businesses that began many decades ago and are still in operation today.

Flavor and Soul

Flavor and Soul
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9780226428468
ISBN-13 : 022642846X
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Flavor and Soul by : John Gennari

In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers—“The Colored Mario”—all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur Puff Daddy dubbing himself “the Black Sinatra,” the affinity between black and Italian cultures runs deep and wide. Once you start looking, you’ll find these connections everywhere. Sinatra croons bel canto over the limousine swing of the Count Basie band. Snoop Dogg deftly tosses off the line “I’m Lucky Luciano ’bout to sing soprano.” Like the Brooklyn pizzeria and candy store in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever, or the basketball sidelines where Italian American coaches Rick Pitino and John Calipari mix it up with their African American players, black/Italian connections are a thing to behold—and to investigate. In Flavor and Soul, John Gennari spotlights this affinity, calling it “the edge”—now smooth, sometimes serrated—between Italian American and African American culture. He argues that the edge is a space of mutual emulation and suspicion, a joyous cultural meeting sometimes darkened by violent collision. Through studies of music and sound, film and media, sports and foodways, Gennari shows how an Afro-Italian sensibility has nourished and vitalized American culture writ large, even as Italian Americans and African Americans have fought each other for urban space, recognition of overlapping histories of suffering and exclusion, and political and personal rispetto. Thus, Flavor and Soul is a cultural contact zone—a piazza where people express deep feelings of joy and pleasure, wariness and distrust, amity and enmity. And it is only at such cultural edges, Gennari argues, that America can come to truly understand its racial and ethnic dynamics.

Living the Revolution

Living the Revolution
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9780807898222
ISBN-13 : 0807898228
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Living the Revolution by : Jennifer Guglielmo

Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes. Jennifer Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. Tracing two generations of women who worked in the needle and textile trades, she explores the ways immigrant women and their American-born daughters drew on Italian traditions of protest to form new urban female networks of everyday resistance and political activism. She also shows how their commitment to revolutionary and transnational social movements diminished as they became white working-class Americans.