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Blood of My Blood (Picas Series No.7) (Picas Series)
Richard Gambino, PhD, is the author of "Vendetta." He lives in New York.
Paperback, 388 pages
Published
January 6th 2000
by Guernica Editions Inc.
(first published March 1st 1975)
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This is the first book my 100% Italian mother-in-law gave to me to read after I married her son. I guess she needed me to realize how important is was to be a wife of an Italian man, lol.
I became interested in reading this by my relatives who unearthed some family history recently. This book contains a somewhat brief but very interesting portrayal of Italian-Americans in working class New York City during civil rights era. This was pretty much before my time, being written in the early 70's. The author worries, at the time, about the fate of third-gen Italian-Americans. Even though this is just the author's well-informed point of view, I definitely want to read more about this s...more
A fascinating look at Italian immigrant culture in the U.S. Dated but nonetheless valuable in providing insights into the values of southern Italians and the tensions that arose when those values and the familial structures and realpolitik they spawned were transposed to America.
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Only a few pages in but it is fantastico so far. Everything I'm looking for on Sicilian and Sicilian-American history, culture, lifestyles and worldviews. Awesome out of date gem found at the UT library.
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