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AND RESPECT: The Italians of Louisiana
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By: A. V. Margavio and Jerome J. Salomone ISBN: 1-58980-023-0
BREAD AND RESPECT: The Italians of Louisiana
Approximately 70,000 Italian immigrants arrived in the Port of New
Orleans between 1898 and 1929. They brought with them a yearning, a hunger
for the things they valued: bread, respect, fortune, security, beauty,
justice, and drama.Impoverished conditions in Sicily lead its people to
respond to Louisiana planters’ pleas for workers, and the transported
Sicilians were then able start new lives, rising quickly to become leaders in
their communities. This is bread. There were few opportunities for land
ownership in Sicily and overcrowding in the urban slums into which immigrants
in other parts of the country came. In Louisiana, these immigrants largely
settled in rural areas, and before long, Italian Americans became the "food
kingpins" of the state. This is respect. Together, they form the basis of
this history of interwoven influences, clashes between the old world and the
new, and that which makes America the great nation it is: the longing of its
citizens to be independent.Using vignettes, family histories, and census as
well as other historical records, A. V. Margavio and Jerome J. Salomone
examine how Italian culture shaped the lives of the immigrants to Louisiana
and, in turn, how experiences in Louisiana modified the Old World values and
culture the Italians brought with them. There are hundreds of thousands of
Italian Americans living in Louisiana today.A. V. Margavio is a professor of
sociology at the University of New Orleans. Jerome J. Salomone is a professor
of sociology and scholar in residence at Southeastern Louisiana University.
BREAD AND RESPECT: The Italians of Louisiana
By A. V. Margavio and Jerome J. Salomone
320 pp. 5½ x 8½
25 b/w photos - 2 maps - 7 tables - Notes - Bibliography - Index
ISBN: 1-58980-023-0
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