Taking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white
ethnicity in the United States, this book challenges the model of
uniform ethnic family and community culture, and argues for a
reconsideration of the meaning of class, kinship, and gender in
America's past and present. Micaela di Leonardo focuses on a group
of Italian-American families who live in Northern California and
who range widely in economic status. Combining the methods of
participant-observation, oral history, and economic-historical
research, she breaks decisively with the tradition of viewing white
ethnicity solely as Eastern, urban, and working class.
The author integrates lively narrative accounts with analysis to
give a fresh interpretation of ethnic identity as both materially
grounded and individually negotiated. She examines the ways in
which different occupational experiences influence individual
choice of family or community as the unit of collective ethnic
identity, and she considers the boundaries at which individuals,
particularly women, work out their personal ethnic identities. Her
analysis illuminates the political meanings that the images of
ethnic woman and family have taken on in popular discourse.
A provocative study that sets the reflections of a broad range
of Italian-Americans in the context of their varied life histories,
this book provides an informed commentary on family, class,
culture, and gender in American life.
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