Italy Outside Italy: Italian Culture & Identity in Italy, America & the World

3 Credits

This course is an introduction to the history of Italian emigration and Italian communities around the world as well as to the trans-national culture and identity they developed. The focus will be on Italians in America, and on the Italian emigrants' point of view. We will discuss how they viewed themselves as emigrants (not immigrants), how they thought of their communities as "colonies" (not "Little Italies"), and how they faced prejudice and discrimination to finally integrate into the new country as Italian Americans.