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Explorations In Ethnic Studies
Pasta Or Paradigm: The Place Of Italian-American Women In Popular Film, Daniel Golden
Pasta Or Paradigm: The Place Of Italian-American Women In Popular Film, Daniel Golden
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The year is 1930, the film is Little Caesar, and Hollywood begins its long and often irresponsible tradition of portraying the Italian-American male as gangster, thug, sociopath. The gangster genre has traditionally focused on male activities--men in groups, their rites of passage into underworld manhood, and their perverted American dreams of success achieved through community extortion, syndicated corruption, and blood murder. But hidden in the story of Caesar Enrico Bandello, who has justifiably been called our "archetypal" film gangster, we also discover fragmentary, but important, early portrayals of the Italian woman in America.
Abstracts Of Papers Presented At The 7th Annual Conference On Ethnic And Minority Studies
Abstracts Of Papers Presented At The 7th Annual Conference On Ethnic And Minority Studies
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This paper reviews some of the most salient aspects of E. M. Rogg's (1974) seminal work, The Assimilation of Cuban Exiles; The Role of Community and Class--a sociological study of the Cuban community in the town of West New York in northeastern New Jersey. Although taking issue with some of the author's theses, this paper elaborates on other findings of the book in question by means of more recent participant-observation field research in the same neighborhood. For example, the new data confirms Rogg's proposition that the organized ethnic minority helps to direct the process of acculturation, though slowly.