Alan Lessoff | Note From The Editor | Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive era, 6.1

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Alan Lessoff | Note From The Editor | Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive era, 6.1 | The History Cooperative

Note From The Editor

The articles this month each in their way concern forms of subculture within American society—one form perhaps overestimated, one underestimated, and one aborted or sidetracked. People who became familiar with New York and other large American cities in, say, the 1960s-70s presumed the various manifestations of Little Italy to have been long-standing phenomena sadly on the wane. On the contrary, as Donna Gabaccia demonstrates in her revised SHGAPE presidential address for 2006, even in New York "Little Italy" has always been a transient phenomenon—in both time and space—tied from the start to outsiders' perceptions of transplanted Italian culture and to the possibilities for marketing that culture. Gabaccia's essay illustrates and furthers the current tendency in research on American urban ethnic communities to stress their permeability and ephemeral character, a point of view obviously relevant to debates on both sides of the Atlantic on the extent and durability of the alleged cultural separateness of urban immigrant groups.

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