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Suny Series in Italian/American Culture Ser.: Hopelessly Alien : The Italian Immigration Experience in Chicago Heights by Louis Corsino (2024, Hardcover)

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Hopelessly Alien : The Italian Immigration Experience in Chicago Heights, Hardcover by Corsino, Louis, ISBN 1438497644, ISBN-13 9781438497648, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "An in-depth sociological investigation of "hope" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950"--

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PublisherSTATE University of New York Press

ISBN-101438497644

ISBN-139781438497648

eBay Product ID (ePID)20064790767

Product Key Features

Number of Pages188 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHopelessly Alien : the Italian Immigration Experience in Chicago Heights

Publication Year2024

SubjectEmigration & Immigration, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), United States / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorLouis Corsino

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

SeriesSuny Series in Italian/American Culture Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight13.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2023-039275

Dewey Edition23/eng/20231213

Reviews"...[Corsino] masterfully challenges the widely held belief that immigrants left Italy solely due to a desire for greater social status and upward economic mobility in their adopted homeland ... While this book is an important contribution to both Italian American studies specifically and immigration and ethnic studies more broadly, it also is a wonderful contribution to furthering readers' understanding of the tension and struggle between individual and communal hopes and between private aspirations and common meanings and desires." -- CHOICE "This book upends the widely held belief that immigrants' decision to leave Italy was fueled solely by a hope for upward mobility and a greater social status than could be attained by remaining in Italy. While nominally a case study of Italian immigrants in Chicago, Corsino's findings will certainly spur researchers to examine not only the experiences and motivations of Italian immigrants elsewhere in the United States, but those of other ethnic groups as well, and have the potential to lead to a wholesale reexamination of immigration motivation en masse ." -- John R. Mitrano, Central Connecticut State University, "This book upends the widely held belief that immigrants' decision to leave Italy was fueled solely by a hope for upward mobility and a greater social status than could be attained by remaining in Italy. While nominally a case study of Italian immigrants in Chicago, Corsino's findings will certainly spur researchers to examine not only the experiences and motivations of Italian immigrants elsewhere in the United States, but those of other ethnic groups as well, and have the potential to lead to a wholesale reexamination of immigration motivation en masse ." -- John R. Mitrano, Central Connecticut State University, "[Corsino] masterfully challenges the widely held belief that immigrants left Italy solely due to a desire for greater social status and upward economic mobility in their adopted homeland While this book is an important contribution to both Italian American studies specifically and immigration and ethnic studies more broadly, it also is a wonderful contribution to furthering readers' understanding of the tension and struggle between individual and communal hopes and between private aspirations and common meanings and desires." -- CHOICE "This book upends the widely held belief that immigrants' decision to leave Italy was fueled solely by a hope for upward mobility and a greater social status than could be attained by remaining in Italy. While nominally a case study of Italian immigrants in Chicago, Corsino's findings will certainly spur researchers to examine not only the experiences and motivations of Italian immigrants elsewhere in the United States, but those of other ethnic groups as well, and have the potential to lead to a wholesale reexamination of immigration motivation en masse ." -- John R. Mitrano, Central Connecticut State University

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal977.3/10045107304

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Hope in a Sociological and Community Context 1. Hope, Cultural Capital, and Habitus within an Italian Community 2. Drawn into the Social Spaces of Hope: The Italian Social Journey from Italy to America 3. Purchasing an Acceptance in American Society: Occupational Mobility as Cultural Capital 4. Purchasing an Acceptance in American Society: Homeownership as Cultural Capital 5. Purchasing an Acceptance in American Society: Children as Cultural Capital Conclusion: Individualized Hope and Communal Hopes Notes Index

SynopsisAn in-depth sociological investigation of "hope" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950., An in-depth sociological investigation of "hope" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950. Hopelessly Alien is an in-depth study of Italian immigration to Chicago Heights, Illinois, between 1910 and 1950. Drawing upon oral histories, interviews, historical documents, and census materials, Louis Corsino examines the critical concept of hope , which most immigration studies have cast in privatized, psychological terms as the motivation to emigrate in search of a better life. This investigation offers a more contentious, sociological perspective, depicting hope as both an ideological lure to recruit and manage the "foreign element" and as a resource immigrants employed to purchase acceptance and avoid a disparaging label as a "hopelessly alien" stranger. These dialectical processes are illustrated through the Italian immigrants' pursuit of occupational mobility and homeownership, and the appropriation of their children's hopes. Each became forms of cultural capital that demonstrated a public commitment to the American ethos of "joyful striving." Each provided measures of success, but these individual pursuits came at the expense of upsetting the necessary tension between individual and communal hopes.

LC Classification NumberE184.I8C6537 2024