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the Mafia in the mind of America

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An edition of An Offer We Can't Refuse (2005)

An offer we can't refuse

the Mafia in the mind of America

1st ed.

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The Mafia has maintained an enduring hold on the American cultural imagination--even as it continues to wrongly color our real-life perception of Italian Americans. Journalist and cultural critic De Stefano takes a look at the origins and prevalence of the Mafia mythos in America. Beginning with a consideration of Italian emigration in the early twentieth century and the fear and prejudice--among both Americans and Italians--that informed our earliest conception of what was the largest immigrant group to enter the United States, De Stefano explores how these impressions laid the groundwork for the images so familiar to us today and uses them to illuminate and explore the variety and allure of Mafia stories. At the same time, he addresses the lingering power of the goodfella cliché, which makes it all but impossible to green-light a project about the Italian American experience not set in gangland.--From publisher description.

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Faber and Faber
Language
English
Pages
438

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Subjects

Italian Americans, Mafia, Social conditions, Conditions sociales, Soziale Situation, Ame ricains d'origine italienne, Américains d'origine italienne, United states, social conditions

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United States
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An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America
January 23, 2007, Faber & Faber
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Table of Contents

Italians to Italian Americans
The Mafia
A genre is born
Don Corleone was my grandfather
From mean streets to suburban meadow
Act like a man
Moulanyans, Medigahns, and wonderbread wops
Cultural holocaust or national myth?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.1/06/0973
Library of Congress
HV6446 .D43 2005, HV6446 .D43 2006, HV6446.D43 2005

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
438

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3399000M
ISBN 10
0571211577
ISBN 13
9780571211579
LCCN
2005012667
OCLC/WorldCat
60420173
LibraryThing
337405
Goodreads
881317

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Work ID
OL5822388W

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