The Italian American Experience - Student Involvement

• Description:

  This 45-minute Zoom lecture will focus on the Italian American experience across four generations, beginning with the first wave of immigration to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century up through the modern-day. Topics of discussion will include push and pull factors that contributed to the Italian diaspora; areas of settlement and "Little Italy's "; the role of Catholicism in the Italian American community then and now; the role of the family among Italian Americans; the loss of the Italian language in the second and third generation and its role in reshaping Italian-American identity; Italian Americans post WWII, the settling of suburbia, and cross-ethnic marriage; Italian American cuisine then and now; the creation of the Italian American stereotype; the future of Italian America; open discussion.

  All are welcome. 

  https://hacc.zoom.us/j/95690491280

• Location: https://hacc.zoom.us/j/95690491280
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