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City of neighborhoods : memory, folklore, and ethnic place in Boston / Anthony Bak Buccitelli.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Folklore studies in a multicultural worldPublisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780299307134
  • 0299307131
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: City of neighborhoods.DDC classification:
  • 398.209744/61 23
LOC classification:
  • F73.52 .B83 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223) and index.

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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.

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.

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