| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Stefano Luconi. From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia. (SUNY Series in Italian/American Culture.) Albany: State University of New York Press. 2001. Pp. x, 264. $19.95.

Stefano Luconi's book examines the transformations undergone by successive generations of Italian Americans through the lens of their experiences in Philadelphia, after New York one of the largest U.S. settlements of Italian immigrants in the early twentieth century. The author aims to use these experiences additionally as a means to probe alternative conceptions of ethnicity as a social construction. 1

Luconi has thoroughly researched the public record in English and Italian and is well versed in the historical and sociological literature. The book unfolds according to a timeline that he has synthesized from the literature and that he tests with his observations. Overall, the fit is quite good, but Luconi fills out what is merely schematic in some places and adds significant nuance in others. Certainly, agreement is strong for the early period, when the immigrant community was dominated by regional and even communal identities brought from Italy. As have others, Luconi documents how the origin-based networks that organized immigration constructed a community that was a mosaic of more parochial subgroups, reflected in the streets where the immigrants lived and structured institutionally by mutual-aid organizations, newspapers, and even the churches where different regional groupings worshipped. . . .

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