Suggested Further Reading
The Routledge History of Italian Americans, William J. Connell and Stanislao G. Pugliese, eds. 2018. Italian translation: Storia degli italoamericani, edizione italiana a cura di Maddalena Tirabassi, Mondadori, 2020. Second, revised, and expanded edition, forthcoming, 2028.
Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943, Francesco Durante and Robert Viscusi, eds. Fordham University Press, 2014. Original Italian edition: Italoamericana. Storia e letteratura degli italiani negli Stati Uniti, 1880-1943 a cura di Francesco Durante. Milano: Mondadori, 2005.
Airos, Letizia and O. Cappelli, eds. Guido: Italian American Youth and Identity Politics (2011)
Amore, B. An Italian American Odyssey. Lifeline – filo della vita. (2006)
Baldassar, Loretta and Donna Gabaccia, eds. Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a
Mobile World (2011)
Barbata Jackson, Jessica. Dixie’s Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South (2020)
Barolini, Helen. Umbertina (1979)
-----. The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women (2000)
Battisti, Danielle. Whom Shall We Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945-1965 (2019)
Bencivenni, Marcella. Italian Immigrant Radical Culture (2011)
Bondanella, Peter. Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys and Sopranos (2006)
Bono, Mary Jo. By the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America (2014)
Calabretta-Sadjer, Ryan, Alan Gravano and Courtney J. R. Grieneisen, Theorizing the Italian Diaspora (2018)
Cannistaro, Philip and Gerald Meyers, eds. The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism (2003)
Carnevale, Nancy. A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945 (2009)
Carravetta, Peter. After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture (2017)
Choate, Mark I. Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad (2008)
Ciresi, Rita. Sometimes I Dream in Italian (2000)
Cinotto, Simone. Making Italian American: Consumer Culture and the Making of Ethnic Identities (2014)
-----. The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City (2013)
Connell, William J. and Fred Gardaphé. Anti-Italianism: Essays on a Prejudice (2004)
D’Acierno, Pellegrino, ed. The Italian American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and the Arts (1998)
D’Angelo, Pasquale, Son of Italy, (1924)
Del Giudice, Luisa. In Search of Abundance: Mountains of Cheese, Rivers of Wine, and other Gastronomic Utopias
(2023)
DeSalvo, Louise. Vertigo, (2002)
De Rosa, Tina. Paper Fish (1980)
Di Cesare, Valentina and Michella Valmori, eds. And There Were Red Geraniums Everywhere: Women’ Voices of the Italian Diaspora in North America (2024)
-----. E c’erano gerani rossi dappertutto. Voci feminili della diaspora italiana in nord america
Di Stasi, Lawrence. Una Storia Segreta (2001)
Ermelino, Louisa. The Black Madonna (2001)
Fante, John. Ask the Dust (1939)
Fontanella, Luigi, The God of New York, (2022)
Gambino, Richard. Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian Americans (1974/2003).
Gardaphé, Fred. From Wise Guys to Wise Men: The Gangster and Italian American Masculinities (2006)
-----. Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (1996)
Gennari, John. Flavor and Soul: Italian American at its African America Edge (2017)
Gioseffi, Daniela. Pioneering Italian American Culture: Escaping La Vita della Cucina (2013)
Giunta, Edvige. Writing With an Accent: Italian American Women Authors (2002)
Giunta, Edvige and Louise DeSalvo, eds. The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on
Food and Culture (2002)
Giunta, Edvige and Joseph Sciorra, eds. Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework
from the Italian Diaspora (2014)
Grames, Juliet. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna (2019)
Gugliemo, Jennifer. Living the Revolution (2010)
Guglielmo, Jennifer and Salvatore Salerno. Are Italians White? How Race Is Made in America (2003)
Gugliemo, Thomas. White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945 (2004)
Lanzillotto, Annie Rachele. Whaddyacall the Wind? (2022)
-----. L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir (2013)
Luconi, Stefano. From Paesani to White Ethnics (2001)
LaGumina, Salvatore. WOP! A Documentary History of Anti-Italian Discrimination (1999)
Lo Giudice, J. and M. Carasone, eds. Our Naked Lives: Essays from Gay Italian American Men (2013)
Luconi, Stefano. From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia (2001)
Marazzi, Martino. Voices of Italian America (2011)
----- Through the Periscope: Changing Culture, Italian America, 2022.
Mazzucco, Melania. Vita (2003)
Messina, Maria. Behind Closed Doors (2019)
Morreale, Ben and Jerre Mangione. La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience (1992)
Muscio, Giuliana. Napoli/New York/Hollywood: Film Between Italy and the United States (2019)
Pardini, Samuele. In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans & Modernity (2017)
Rafalà, Marco. How Fires End (2019)
Rotella, Mark. Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria 2004.
Scibona, Salvatore. The End (2009)
Sciorra, J. Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Memorial Culture in New York City
Serra, Ilaria. The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies (2007)
Serra, Rosemary. Sense of Origins: A Study of New York’s Young Italian Americans (2020)
Talese, Gay. Unto the Sons (1992)
Tamburri, Anthony Julian. A Semiotic of Ethnicity (1998)
The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia. Salvatore LaGumina, et al, eds. (2000)
Tonelli, Bill, ed. The Italian American Reader (2003).
Tricarico, Donald. Italian American Youth Culture from Bensonhurst to Jersey Shore (2018)
Vecoli, Rudolph. The Coming of Age of the Italian Americans (1974)
Vellon, Peter. A Great Conspiracy Against Our Race (2014)
Verdicchio, Pasquale. Bound By Distance: Rethinking Nationalism through the Italian Diaspora (2016)
Viscusi, Robert. Buried Caesars and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing (2006)
-----. Ellis Island (2011)