Hopelessly Alien: The Italian Immigration Experience in Chicago Heights

Hopelessly Alien is an in-depth study of Italian immigration to Chicago Heights, Illinois, between 1910 and 1950....
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Author: Louis Corsino
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Hopelessly Alien: The Italian Immigration Experience in Chicago Heights by Corsino, Louis

Hopelessly Alien: The Italian Immigration Experience in Chicago Heights

BD$55.97

Hopelessly Alien: The Italian Immigration Experience in Chicago Heights

BD$55.97
Author: Louis Corsino
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 Drawing upon oral histories, interviews, historical documents, and census materials, Louis Corsino examines the critical concept of hope, which most immigration studies have cast in privatized, psychological terms as the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.

Author: Louis Corsino
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 11/02/2024
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781438497617

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