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.

Nancy Carnevale specializes in the history of immigration, race and ethnicity in the U.S. Her most recent book, „A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945″ (University of Illinois Press, 2009, information), won the American Book Award, and explores the experience of language for Italian immigrants and their children. She is currently working on a comparative study of Italian American and African American relations in urban and suburban New Jersey. She is an Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University.

Jennifer Guglielmo specializes in the history of immigration, race, women, and labor in the United States, and is an Associate Professor of History at Smith College. Her recent book „Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945“ (UNC Press, 2010, information) received the OAH Lerner-Scott Prize and was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. It documents Italian immigrant women’s commitment to revolutionary and transnational social movements, and explores how this activism diminished as they became white working-class Americans. She is currently translating and compiling Italian immigrant women’s anarchist-feminist writing from the early twentieth century for her next publication, My Rebelious Heart.