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The period from the 1870s onward has rightly been the focus of Italian American historical studies. In earlier decades, the number of Americans of Italian ancestry was miniscule compared with the numbers in the great wave of immigration that started in the 1870s and peaked in the period before World War I. Three generations of historians have told us a great deal about who the Italians in this massive movement of human beings were. We know how many people came, where they came from, how they were received in this country, and we also know about the various ways in which they have assimilated, contributed to, and resisted mainstream American culture and how they sometimes succeeded in creating new cultures and subcultures of their own.1 For important reasons, almost all of this work has attempted to see American culture from the point of view of Italian immigrants. As a result, there is still much interesting work to be done to look at the arriving Italians from the point of view of the Americans who were already here.
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Connell, W.J. (2010). Darker Aspects of Italian American Prehistory. In: Connell, W.J., Gardaphé, F. (eds) Anti-Italianism. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230115323_2
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