The Varieties of Ethnic Experience: Kinship, Class, and Gender among California Italian-Americans (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
Description
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. Micaela di Leonardo focuses on a group of Italian-American families who live in Northern California and who range widely in economic status. Combining the methods of participant-observation, oral history, and economic-historical research, she breaks decisively with the tradition of viewing white ethnicity sol...
ISBN(s)
0801416329, 9780801416323
