The labour and leisure of food production as a mode of ethnic identity building among Italians in Chicago, 1890-1940

Rethinking History

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 131-148

  Poe, Tracy N ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicago; Culture; Foodways; Immigration; Italian

Indexed keywords

EID: 9544255444     PISSN: 13642529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13642520010024208     Document Type: Article

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