1 25 1 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/58817/archive/files/9381476c3d0b5138d772f3f4d13b3f92.jpg?Expires=1779321600&Signature=WaCGHOqDWbQ2zvOuFtRosDi-RE38ugxeXwAtuo9ZSz2izNNZiLIGnOl9PQEY1NLzq2sjzWlLNjAg9LfBzWw0Ln-E09-4HkRmMw723hVwi3SUULvoyu78-yeUYdFNRuwKecAVEovnxc48x2IeFPHaoz8%7EuKHa2Ng2Cn5MQDawYMfiZrA00n-%7EDq3w7gLf5FTse3NtpkliqGbPAnDd-VHz0H2ThneR%7EqOagoOyeSkkQRMXfxClshytLe3wSU6Iqkf4gtgMeMYwQxKx65vXDPIPbV%7E6YUbPzJeyvuDWb-KRS25I5mGLJ502Tsi0Sqk7CBp2gN8kGCNO6KXCFOV4hUZoHw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 4c67cbd897a9fb6f0b7eef70a187d973 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/58817/archive/files/9f3b00bffe93b083429d8409657dab38.jpg?Expires=1779321600&Signature=dmo23w7aeVUNwvjXFyZPwa9-H-vgNN9UGeuadfE1FBun-llkTkB4SQ1sB-Mi50Zl5-1%7EhlHUyEXddBTaWEsRXA%7E2p0F6lvg6RgyUBjApQfh5VqsdR8blljaeyQvIiaq%7Eo-trC-D1E0-djVLeG1Us74BdU0T%7EzzwcrRjGuhXjbO0b0KkzuZXtmO4RV6NN6BagyD9syQjS-qupFL4JEKnYqqHt20Jgxk03Uu%7Ex2C54fJVslA9FUiqPDjxtnACavipvQwdhgVWLrAvunLp%7E%7EIQ3bTMskHcIHL59%7EDrEm9eggqiA4SSJRDNLOS2a7-1N-grg97-Ysr0PhditBA5N5EKTwg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 92fc1c788226765d8d8a11a02d92b974 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Histories, philosophy, biographies, directories, bibliographies, almanacs, catalogues, annuals, religious, educational, and travel literature Subject The topic of the resource These largely non-political works reflect a broad pallette of non-fiction reflections on the history of Italians in the U.S., travel literature, biographies (like that of the Peanut King, Obici), or the religious, like Sister, later Mother, and final Saint Cabrini. Description An account of the resource In these non-fiction works, Italians reflected upon themselves and their American experiences. Representing the non-sovversivi type of immigrant, who were more interested in becoming American and “making it” in America than in stoking class warfare and remaking society, They began to place themselves in the context of contemporary American society and the history in America. The release in 1921 of Alfredo Bosi’s Cinquant’anni di vita italiana in America, the first history of Italians in the United States, represented a watershed - the first 50 years of Italians in America - and allegedly arose from a conversation between journalist Bosi and King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy in 1901, in which the king expressed curiosity about the Italian colony in America. Luigi Roversi’s biography of Palma di Cesnola proudly places that Italian within the august homes of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant America, into which di Cesnola had married, and where he ruled as the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. More than the first half of Flamma’s “biography” of the greatest mayor New York City had ever seen, Fiorello LaGuardia, has little to do with La Guardia, unfortunately, but the work did reflect his obvious pride that after electing mayors in 29 other cities, Italians “finally” elected (in 1933) a mayor of Italian heritage to the country’s most important city. The directories discussed here, from New York to San Francisco, provide a particularly rich source of information about the different businesses and professions Italians had in virtually every state of the union, from as early as the 1880s (in San Francisco) to the first few decades of the 20th Century (primarily in New York). Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tre anni [1937-39] di lavoro in difesa degli immigrati italiani in America [Three Years [1937-39] of Work in Defense of Immigrant Italians in America]. New York: Comitato italiano per la difesa degli immigrati, 1940. Description An account of the resource The leader of the Italian Committee for the Defense of Immigrants, Edward Corsi (b. Capestrano (L'Aquila) 1896 - d. New York 1965) immigrated to the U.S. in 1907 at the age of ten with his mother and step-father. A studious boy, he frequented Harlem House, just founded by Anna C. Ruddy in 1908, at that time called Home Garden, and later LaGuardia House. Home Garden was an important center of sociocultural activities in Italian East Harlem and a hub of prominent political personalities, among them Judge Salvatore Cotillo and Congressmen Vito Marcantonio and Fiorello La Guardia. Corsi personally knew the people and the problems of East Harlem, and later described his experiences there as an actual turning point his life. He became director of Home Garden, from 1926-1931. When the Republican Herbert Hoover became president of the U.S., the Republican Corsi became Commissioner of Emigration, for two years, from 1931 to 1933. The next year he went on to direct the Home Relief Bureau, until 1935. In that year, he published In the Shadow of Liberty, and founded La Settimana, a bilingual newspaper publishing correspondence from the most influential Italian journalists in America, such as Amerigo Ruggiero of La Stampa (q.v. his Italiani in America), and Alfonso Arbib-Costa, as well as prominent exponents of Italian American culture such as Angelo Patri. He was until the 1920s a correspondent for Il Carroccio but also the politically quite opposite La Follia di New York, as well as (later, in the 1950s) Divagando and others. The texts of his radio broadcasts treating themes on Italian and American history and culture were published successively in La Follia and ultimately collected in the volume, Edoardo Corsi Parla (1942). His work for the Comitato italiano per la difesa degli immigrati is typical of the work in whose importance this lawyer and public servant believed. From 1943 to 1954, he was head of the New York State Industrial Board, and later, became special assitant for immigration in the Eisenhower administration. Giuseppe Prezzolini translated and published in Omnibus and then in Oggi, two passages from In the Shadow of Liberty. An excerpt from the latter appears in Durante. This volume was printed by Cocce Press, which besides having its own imprint, was a "jobber" for printing for others, like the Comitato. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edward Corsi [pref.] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Comitato italiano per la difesa degli immigrati Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 22.5 x 15.5cm; 47 p. Language A language of the resource Italian Cocce Divagando Durante Edward Corsi Harlem House Il Carroccio La Follia di New York La Settimana New York