Tenement Museum Shop
Time: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 6:30 pm
Venue: Tenement Museum Shop (web), Lower East Side, 108 Orchard Street at Delancey, New York City
Free and open to the public
The books:
Nancy Carnevele, „A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945“ (University of Illinois Press, 2009)
Jennifer Guglielmo, „Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945“ (UNC Press, 2010)
Brief reading and discussion from Carnevele’s and Guglielmo’s recent books documenting Italian immigrant experiences with labor, race, gender, language, and working-class radicalism in the early twentieth century. Continue reading