title: String of decaying ruins: a transnational Italian American experience
abstract: This dissertation examines the ethnography and historiography of the Italian American community and their southern Italian counterpart. It examines the phenomenon of Italian Unification, the socio-economics of organized crime, and the role women played in the social life of rural southern Italy. This project also examines the history of Italian immigration to the United States, the ethnic integration of Italian people into American society, and the state of Italian American ethnic identity and m
journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)