Reviewed by Dominic Candeloro | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.4

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*Italian Voices: Making Minnesota Our Home.* By Mary Ellen Mancina-Batinich. Edited by FlorenceMae Waldron. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2007. xix + 315 pp. Photos, notes, appendix, and index. $29.95 (cloth).
The history of this book is almost as interesting as its contents. Mary Ellen Mancina-Batinich grew up in Minnesota, then spent most of her professional life as a teacher and administrator in Chicago's public schools. An indefatigable activist in the Italian American community, Mancina-Batinich joined the American Italian Historical Association and eventually headed the Oral History component of the Italians in Chicago Project (of which the current reviewer was director). In that role, she shepherded over one hundred interviews from taping to transcription and dissemination.	1
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Mancina-Batinich personally interviewed about one hundred Italian Americans in Minnesota and began working on a manuscript that was left in draft form when she died in 1996. In all, her materials—now in the archives of the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota—run 73 linear feet. Under the leadership of Rudolph Vecoli, IHRC eventually arranged for FlorenceMae Waldron to prepare this draft for publication.	. . .

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