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City of neighborhoods :

Buccitelli, Anthony Bak,

City of neighborhoods : memory, folklore, and ethnic place in Boston / Anthony Bak Buccitelli. - 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations. - Folklore studies in a multicultural world . - Folklore studies in a multicultural world. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223) and index.

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: City of Neighborhoods -- Chapter 1. Spaces of Memory: Local History Writing and Discourses of Ethnic Place -- Chapter 2. Ethnic Symbols, Intertextuality, and Indexed Memory -- Chapter 3. Ethnicity and Personalization in Local Memory Traditions -- Chapter 4. Festive Locales: Ethnic Celebrations and Local Meanings -- Chapter 5. Virtually a Local: Folk Geography, Digital Technology, and Social Memory -- Conclusion: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

East Boston has long been known as an Italian neighborhood and Southie as an Irish one, while nearby North Quincy has seen in recent decades an influx of Chinese Americans and immigrants. Such urban spaces in America can become intimately intertwined with ethnic identities (Little Italy, Greektown, Chinatown, Little Havana). Yet local residents often readily acknowledge an underlying diversity-both historically and as a result of more recent changes-that complicates such stereotypes. Digging into the ever-shifting terrain of American ethnicity and urban spaces, Anthony Bak Buccitell.

9780299307134 0299307131

913667 MIL


2000-2099


Neighborhoods--Massachusetts--Boston.
Folklore--Massachusetts--Boston.
Ethnic relations.
Folklore.
Manners and customs.
Neighborhoods.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology


Boston (Mass.)--Ethnic relations.
Boston (Mass.)--Social life and customs--21st century.
Massachusetts--Boston.


Electronic books.

F73.52 / .B83 2016eb

398.209744/61