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Creole Italian

Author : Justin A. Nystrom
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820353558
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Creole Italian written by Justin A. Nystrom and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Creole Italian, Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows these immigrants from their first impressions on Louisiana food culture in the mid-1830s and along their path until the 1970s. Each chapter touches on events that involved Sicilian immigrants and the relevancy of their lives and impact on New Orleans. Sicilian immigrants cut sugarcane, sold groceries, ran truck farms, operated bars and restaurants, and manufactured pasta. Citing these cultural confluences, Nystrom posits that the significance of Sicilian influence on New Orleans foodways traditionally has been undervalued and instead should be included, along with African, French, and Spanish cuisine, in the broad definition of "creole." Creole Italian chronicles how the business of food, broadly conceived, dictated the reasoning, means, and outcomes for a large portion of the nearly forty thousand Sicilian immigrants who entered America through the port of New Orleans in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and how their actions and those of their descendants helped shape the food town we know today.

Bread and Respect

Author : Margavio, A. V.
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455601509
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Bread and Respect written by Margavio, A. V. and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 70,000 Italian immigrants arrived in the Port of New Orleans between 1898 and 1929. They brought with them a yearning, a hunger for the things they valued: bread, respect, fortune, security, beauty, justice, and drama. Impoverished conditions in Sicily lead its people to respond to Louisiana plantersï¿1/2 pleas for workers, and the transported Sicilians were then able start new lives, rising quickly to become leaders in their communities. This is bread. There were few opportunities for land ownership in Sicily and overcrowding in the urban slums into which immigrants in other parts of the country came. In Louisiana, these immigrants largely settled in rural areas, and before long, Italian Americans became the "food kingpins" of the state. This is respect. Together, they form the basis of this history of interwoven influences, clashes between the old world and the new, and that which makes America the great nation it is: the longing of its citizens to be independent. Using vignettes, family histories, and census as well as other historical records, A. V. Margavio and Jerome J. Salomone examine how Italian culture shaped the lives of the immigrants to Louisiana and, in turn, how experiences in Louisiana modified the Old World values and culture the Italians brought with them. There are hundreds of thousands of Italian Americans living in Louisiana today. A. V. Margavio is a professor of sociology at the University of New Orleans. Jerome J. Salomone is a professor of sociology and scholar in residence at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Italians in New Orleans

Author : Joseph Maselli
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738516929
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Italians in New Orleans written by Joseph Maselli and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1850 and 1870, New Orleans boasted the largest Italian-born population of any city in the United States. Its early Italian immigrants included musicians, business leaders, and diplomats. Sadly, in 1891, 11 members of the large Sicilian settlement in New Orleans were victims of the largest mass lynching in American history. However, by 1910, the city's French Quarter was a "Little Palermo" with Italian entrepreneur, laborers, and restauranteurs dominating the scene.

Italian Louisiana

Author : Alan G Gauthreaux
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162584915X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Italian Louisiana written by Alan G Gauthreaux and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Italian immigrant communities in Louisiana at the close the nineteenth century and the difficulty the faced acclimating to American society. Though the Italian contribution to Louisiana’s culture is palpable and celebrated, at one time ethnic Italians were constantly embroiled in scandal, sometimes deserved and sometimes as scapegoats. The new immigrants hoped that they would be welcomed and see for themselves the “streets paved with gold.” Their new lives, however, were difficult. Italians in Louisiana faced prejudice, violence and political exile for their refusal to accept the southern racial mores. Author and historian Alan Gauthreaux documents the experience of those Italians who arrived in Louisiana over one hundred years ago. “This historical survey was no easy task, and the presentation of this intriguing chapter in Louisiana’s rich history is quite impressive. Any Louisiana library would be incomplete without Italian Louisiana, an extensively researched, evenly paced, and well-balanced account of the unique Italian experience in Louisiana.” —Florent Hardy, Jr., Ph.D., state archivist for Louisiana State Archives “Immigration historians have largely focused on the northeast and California when studying the history of Italian Americans in this country. We are therefore grateful to Alan Gauthreaux for his well-researched study on how Italian immigrants to Louisiana fared. More than a hundred years ago, thousands of Italians, mainly from Sicily, were “imported” to Louisiana to work in the sugar cane fields that the newly freed slaves avoided. The Italians faced serious obstacles, including prejudice and violence. In fact, the biggest mass lynching in American history occurred in 1891, when a New Orleans mob slaughtered 11 Italians, including a teen-age boy, after they had been found innocent of murdering a police officer. But Gauthreaux also explores how, through hard work and strong values, these immigrants eventually secured a much brighter future for themselves and their descendants. A “must-read” for anyone interested in Italian Americans and their story.” —Dona De Sanctis, PhD, editor-in-chief, Italian America Magazine

Louisiana's Italians, Food, Recipes & Folkways

Author : Nancy Wilson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455607924
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana's Italians, Food, Recipes & Folkways written by Nancy Wilson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over three decades, Nancy Wilson collected anecdotes and recipes from Louisiana’s Italian immigrants, including her family and friends, as a way to preserve her children’s Italian heritage. Included here alongside lively personal commentary are historical and cultural facts about Italian American immigration patterns, religious institutions and festivals such as St. Joseph’s Day, and over one hundred recipes from “the old country.” This collectable volume will appeal as much to cultural historians as to those seeking their Italian grandmother’s fava bruschetta instructions. Recipes include Mama’s Italian Bread, eggplant casserole, olive salad, Aunt Lena’s Ricotta, rosary cake, osso bucco, St. Joseph’s Day breadcrumbs, and more. Wilson also includes a glossary and an illustrated how-to for making your own mud oven to bake authentic Italian bread. The down-to-earth voices collected in Louisiana’s Italians, Food, and Folkways make this an interesting blend of personal and public history and a delicious celebration of the Italian’s love of God, food, and family.

Dixie’s Italians

Author : Jessica Barbata Jackson
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807173762
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Dixie’s Italians written by Jessica Barbata Jackson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tens of thousands of Southern Italians and Sicilians immigrated to the American Gulf South. Arriving during the Jim Crow era at a time when races were being rigidly categorized, these immigrants occupied a racially ambiguous place in society: they were not considered to be of mixed race, nor were they “people of color” or “white.” In Dixie’s Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South, Jessica Barbata Jackson shows that these Italian and Sicilian newcomers used their undefined status to become racially transient, moving among and between racial groups as both “white southerners” and “people of color” across communal and state-monitored color lines. Dixie’s Italians is the first book-length study of Sicilians and other Italians in the Jim Crow Gulf South. Through case studies involving lynchings, disenfranchisement efforts, attempts to segregate Sicilian schoolchildren, and turn-of-the-century miscegenation disputes, Jackson explores the racial mobility that Italians and Sicilians experienced. Depending on the location and circumstance, Italians in the Gulf South were sometimes viewed as white and sometimes not, occasionally offered access to informal citizenship and in other moments denied it. Jackson expands scholarship on the immigrant experience in the American South and explorations of the gray area within the traditionally black/white narrative. Bridging the previously disconnected fields of immigration history, southern history, and modern Italian history, this groundbreaking study shows how Sicilians and other Italians helped to both disrupt and consolidate the region’s racially binary discourse and profoundly alter the legal and ideological landscape of the Gulf South at the turn of the century.

Vendetta

Author : Richard Gambino
Publisher : Guernica Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781550711035
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Vendetta written by Richard Gambino and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven Italian Americans were lynched in New Orleans on March 14, 1891, by a mob of twenty thousand people, gathered together by the political, business, and labor elites a day after a jury acquitted six Italian Americans of the murder of the city's police chief. No one was charged or punished for this injustice. The lynching caused a disconnect between the president and congress of the United States, and Washington and Rome. The crisis was used by nativists to restrict immigration and to repress immigrant populations and also introduced a new word to the American vocabulary: mafia.

Alligator Bayou

Author : Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN 13 : 0553494171
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Alligator Bayou written by Donna Jo Napoli and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable novel, based on a true story, about racism against Italian Americans in the South in 1899. Fourteen-year-old Calogero, his uncles, and his cousins are six Sicilians living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, miles from any of their countrymen. They grow vegetables and sell them at their stand and in their grocery store. Some people welcome the immigrants; most do not. Calogero's family is caught in the middle of tensions between the black and white communities. As Calogero struggles to adapt to Tallulah, he is startled and thrilled by the danger of midnight gator hunts in the bayou and by his powerful feelings for Patricia, a sharp-witted, sweet-natured black girl. Meanwhile, every day, and every misunderstanding between the white community and the Sicilians, bring Calogero and his family closer to a terrifying, violent confrontation. In this affecting and unforgettable novel, Donna Jo Napoli's inspired research and spare, beautiful language take the classic immigrant story to new levels of emotion and searing truth. Alligator Bayou tells a story that all Americans should know.

Italian Immigrants in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes

Author : Jean Ann Scarpaci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Immigrants in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes written by Jean Ann Scarpaci and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blood Washes Blood

Author : Frank Viviano
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671041592
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Blood Washes Blood written by Frank Viviano and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viviano travels to his family's ancestral home in western Sicily to investigate the murder of his great-great grandfather more than a hundred years before. He uncovered a web of family loyalty, blood feuds and codes of silence.

The 1891 New Orleans Lynchings and U.S.-Italian Relations

Author : Marco Rimanelli
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The 1891 New Orleans Lynchings and U.S.-Italian Relations written by Marco Rimanelli and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the centenary of the 1891 New Orleans Crisis and U.S.-Italian war-scare, this authoritative study by Marco Rimanelli and Sheryl L. Postman represents the latest, and most complete and objective socio-politico-literary study of that period. Although long forgotten, this key domestic and diplomatic crisis exposed in a flash of violence all the simmering anti-Italian racial tensions rocking New Orleans and America. Ethnic hostility toward southern Italian immigration and Mafia criminality exploded in New Orleans with the murder of Police Chief D.C. Hennessy and the lynching by a 20,000-strong mob of 11 imprisoned Italians. Far from being spontaneous, the lynching was secretly engineered by Lousiana's establishment in a strategy to exterminate the Mafia, expropriate the rich Italian tropical fruit trade with Central America, and especially, cajole the independent-minded Italians into joining the White Supremacist front, which disenfranchised Louisiana's Blacks in 1898. Nationally, the lynching split Americans between advocates and opposers of popular justice and anti-immigration laws. Even more importantly, the New Orleans Lynchings provoked a major international crisis and war-scare with Italy in 1891-92, while promoting at home the long awaited nationalistic Reunification of North and South against foreign foes. The U.S. government's refusal to pay reparations until 1892 led Italy to break diplomatic relations, while both governments were trapped in a rigid international confrontation by their own domestic political fragility and collapsing electoral support. Finally America's own defenselessness against Italy's navy (The world's third largest) forced the U.S. to build a new modern navy, which first propelled them to victory in the 1898 Spanish-American War, and later on to global Superpowership.

The Axeman of New Orleans

Author : Miriam C. Davis
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 161374871X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The Axeman of New Orleans written by Miriam C. Davis and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper–style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders, sympathetic victims, accused innocents, public panic, the New Orleans Mafia, and a mysterious killer has never been written. Until now. The Axeman repeatedly broke into the homes of Italian grocers in the dead of night, leaving his victims in a pool of blood. Iorlando Jordano, an innocent Italian grocer, and his teenaged son Frank were wrongly accused of one of those murders; corrupt officials convicted them with coerced testimony. Miriam C. Davis here expertly tells the story of the search for the Axeman and of the eventual exoneration of the innocent Jordanos. She proves that the person mostly widely suspected of being the Axeman was not the killer. She also shows what few have suspected—that the Axeman continued killing after leaving New Orleans in 1919. Only thirty years after Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel, the Axeman of New Orleans held an American city hostage. This book tells that story.

Bloodstained Louisiana

Author : Alan G. Gauthreaux
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476672164
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Bloodstained Louisiana written by Alan G. Gauthreaux and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Alan G. Gauthreaux chronicles 12 homicide cases from late 1800s and early 1900s Louisiana--where "unwritten law" justified jilted women who killed their paramours, and police took measures to protect defendants from lynch mobs. Stories include the 1907 kidnapping of seven-year-old Walter Lamana by the New Orleans "Black Hand," the 1912 acquittal of Zea McRee (a woman of "good reputation") in Opelousas, and the 1934 trial and execution of Shreveport's infamous "Butterfly Man."

St. Charles Parish, Louisiana

Author : Joan Weaver Becnel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578646388
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book St. Charles Parish, Louisiana written by Joan Weaver Becnel and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Orleans

Author : Leonard Victor Huber
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455609314
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book New Orleans written by Leonard Victor Huber and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1971 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Italian-americans

Author : Maria Laurino
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393241297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Italian-americans written by Maria Laurino and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly researched, beautifully illustrated volume illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history. From extensive archival materials and interviews with well-known Italian Americans, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true Italian-American experience. Looking beyond the familiar Little Italys and stereotypes fostered by The Godfather and The Sopranos, Laurino reveals surprising, fascinating lives: Italian-Americans working on sugar-cane plantations in Louisiana to those who were lynched in New Orleans; the banker who helped rebuild San Francisco after the great earthquake; families interned as “enemy aliens” in World War II. From anarchist radicals to “Rosie the Riveter” to Nancy Pelosi, Andrew Cuomo, and Bill de Blasio; from traditional artisans to rebel songsters like Frank Sinatra, Dion, Madonna, and Lady Gaga, this book is both exploration and celebration of the rich legacy of Italian-American life. Readers can discover the history chronologically, chapter by chapter, or serendipitously by exploring the trove of supplemental materials. These include interviews, newspaper clippings, period documents, and photographs that bring the history to life.

Hotel Vendome

Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0345529200
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Hotel Vendome written by Danielle Steel and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s #1 bestseller! There are some places you visit, and some places you never leave behind. Danielle Steel’s new novel follows a devoted father and the daughter he raises in the fascinating upstairs-downstairs world of a glamorous Manhattan hotel. HOTEL VENDÔME The hotel was old, run-down. But to Swiss-born hotelier Hugues Martin, it is a rough diamond tucked away on a quiet New York City street. So Hugues scrapes together everything he has to purchase the building—and transforms it into one of the world’s finest luxury hotels. Under Hugues’s exacting supervision, the Hotel Vendôme is soon renowned for its unparalleled service and discretion—the ideal refuge for the rich and famous—and a perfect home for Hugues’s family, until his young wife abandons him, leaving Hugues the single parent to their four-year-old daughter. Still, Heloise grows up happily amid a colorful milieu of celebrities, socialites, politicians, world travelers, and the countless hotel employees who all adore her. As the years pass and unexpected challenges arise, Hugues and the hotel are the center of Heloise’s life. She longs to follow in her father’s footsteps and one day run the Hotel Vendôme. The lessons she learns at his side will carry her through it all, illuminating a story no reader will forget. Welcome to the Hotel Vendôme. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Danielle Steel's Sins of the Mother.