Varieties of Ethnic Experience - Kinship, Class and Gender Among California Italian-Americans Di Leonardo MicaelaPaperback
Varieties of Ethnic Experience - Kinship, Class and Gender Among California Italian-Americans Di Leonardo MicaelaPaperback Taking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in…
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Varieties of Ethnic Experience - Kinship, Class and Gender Among California Italian-Americans Di Leonardo MicaelaPaperback
Taking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in the United States, this book challenges the model of uniform ethnic family and community culture, and argues for a reconsideration of the meaning of class, kinship, and gender in America's past and present. Combining the methods of participant-observation, oral history, and economic-historical research, she breaks decisively with the tradition of viewing white ethnicity solely as Eastern, urban, and working class.The author integrates lively narrative accounts with analysis to give a fresh interpretation of ethnic identity as both materially grounded and individually negotiated. Micaela di Leonardo focuses on a group of Italian-American families who live in Northern California and who range widely in economic status.
She examines the ways in which different occupational experiences influence individual