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''Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians before Mass Migration'' is a 1998 nonfiction book by Richard N. Juliani, published by Penn State University Press. The book discusses Italian immigration to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from its beginnings in the 1750s through the 1870s.〔Martinelli, p. 935-936.〕 The book discusses the individual Italian Americans and the social issues the early Italian American community faced.〔Martinelli, p. 936.〕 John Zucchi of McGill University wrote that ''Building Little Italy'' was against the practice of being ''filiopietistic'', or members of an ethnic group emphasizing "the presence of their "tribe" in a particular locale from the early history of a European presence in that locus" in order "to bolster the community or to respond to a perceived self-disesteem of their ethnic group".〔Zucchi, p. 327-328.〕 Stefano Luconi of the University of Florence wrote that this book differed from a trend of most research of Italian Americans being "a hagiographic defense of Italian immigrants' contributions to the cultural, political, and economic development of American society to counter negative stereotypes of Italians as foreigners incapable of assimilation into their adoptive country."〔Luconi, p. 121.〕 ==Background== Juliani is a professor of sociology at Villanova University.〔Flynn, p. 110.〕 Juliani began his research career in the mid-1960s,〔Varbero, p. 258〕 and had researched Philadelphia's Italian community for 30 years prior to the publication of the book.〔Gabaccia, p. 490.〕 The book uses many sources related to Father Antonio Isoleri, who, from 1870 through 1926, served as the pastor of an Italian American church in Little Italy, Saint Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi Church, America's first Italian ethnic church. These sources include notes, sermons, letters, plays, and poems, with a total of over 20,000 pages. Other sources used include newspapers, Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) documents, and U.S. Census documents.〔Casino, p. 405.〕 As of 1999, the Italians in the United States in the 1880-1940 and post 1940 periods had received more scholarly attention than those pre-1880,〔Migliore, p. 604.〕 and as of 2000 most researchers begin at 1880.〔 The book's subjects are skilled northern Italians,〔Vecchio, p. 139.〕 while the more commonly studied later immigrants were mostly southern Italians who had less skills and education than the previous group.〔Vecchio, p. 140.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Building Little Italy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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