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An edition of Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America (2000)

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"In this thoughtful, penetrating, and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity, Laurino dismantles the stereotypes bedeviling Italian-Americans. With a sympathetic but clear eye, she writes about guidos, bimbettes, and mammani (mama's boys in Italy). She examines the clashing aesthetics of Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace, and unravels the etymology of southern Italian dialect words like gavane.

And careful to avoid the perils of nostalgia, She explores the pungent influence on her life of Italian attitudes towards family, work, and faith."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
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Pages
219

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Italian Americans, Italian American women, Biography, Italy, genealogy, United states, genealogy
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Cover of: Were You Always an Italian?
Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America
June 2001, W. W. Norton & Company
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Cover of: Were You Always an Italian?
Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America
June 2001, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
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Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America
2001, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
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Were you always an Italian?: ancestors and other icons of Italian America
2000, W.W. Norton & Co.
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Biography.

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Dewey Decimal Class
973/.0451/0092, B
Library of Congress
E184.I8 L38 2000, E184.I8L38 2000, E 184 I8 L38 2000

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219 p. ;
Number of pages
219

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OL6780307M
Internet Archive
wereyoualwaysita00laur
ISBN 10
0393049302
LCCN
00026028
OCLC/WorldCat
43615436
Library Thing
690815
Goodreads
2302018

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ONCE MANY, MANY YEARS AGO, in a small village named Conza della Campania in the province of Avellino, my maternal great-grandfather Michele Conte fell in love with the younger of two daughters, but by tradition he was obligated to marry the older sister, Concetta.
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