Feeling Italian: The art of ethnicity in America

Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-255

  Ferraro, Thomas J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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51. For a seminal overview and analysis of black identifications with Italian America, including Sinatra, see John Gennari, "Passing for Italian," transition 72 (1996), 36-48.
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63. James T. Fisher, "Clearing the Streets of the Catholic Lost Generation," Catholic Lives, Contemporary America, ed. Thomas J. Ferraro (Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 1997), 76-103.