Word: italian-american
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...trade union but an organization of white-collar professionals. And on Friday morning he went into East Boston and met workers who had just been laid off, that evening he went to Worcester for a "time" Udall's term for a reception, where the crowd was primarily Italian-American working-class people. His greeting there was warm, but several voters said they still liked Jackson and Wallace...
...early '70s and is continuing to spread among the descendants of Southern and Eastern European immigrant groups, including Italian, Polish, Portuguese-and just about every other variety of American but old-line Anglo-Saxon Protestants and the well-publicized blacks, American Indians and Hispanics. "White ethnics have been ignored in favor of blacks and Hispanics," claims Mary Sansone, executive director of New York's Congress of Italian-American Organizations. Now, taking a cue from the blacks, the white ethnics argue that what is good for blacks is good for other minorities. They too are demanding public recognition, federal...
...only through their own reminiscences about growing up and marrying on New York's Lower East Side but through their relationships with him and with each other, as they talk about a recent trip to Italy, argue or bicker or tease. Scorsese even defies that eternal cliche of Italian-American life by showing his mother cooking meat balls and tomato sauce. At film's end, in gleeful tribute, he includes the recipe in the credits. Italianamerican has a kind of impulsive immediacy and is rich in the sort of raucous humor that people can create only when they...
Paul J. Asciolla, 40, a member of the Italian-founded Scalabrini Fathers, was assigned to a quiet post in a Chicago suburban old people's home in 1965 as a reprimand for his public involvement in civil rights. As an Italian-American concerned with the problems of ethnic groups in the U.S., Asciolla has become one of Chicago's-and America's -leading spokesmen for immigrant Americans. A colorful, somewhat garrulous priest from Rhode Island, he crisscrosses the U.S. as a lecturer...
...accepted rather generally. In 1971, however, Francis A.J. Ianni challenged this conception in "A Family Business," a study of an organized crime "family" in New York City's Little Italy. Ianni asserts that criminal syndicates should be viewed as social and kinship organizations, rather than formal ones. He viewed Italian-American criminal syndicates as a form of social organization patterned by tradition and responsive to the Italian-American urban culture. As persisting social systems, Ianni notes, organized crime syndicates must function as integral parts of the surrounding society. Thus Ianni looked at organized crime as an aspect of the Italian...