“The cornerstone is laid”: Italian American Memorial Building in New York City and Immigrants’ Right to the City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

This paper will analyze how, at the end of the nineteenth century, Italian Americans used memorial building to get a greater exposure as an ethnic group, transcend the boundaries of the Little Italies, question the place they had been assigned in American society and history, and redefine their role...

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Main Author: Bénédicte Deschamps
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2015-12-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11299