TY - BOOK ID - 138115362 TI - Staying Italian PY - 2010 SN - 1282504339 9786612504334 0226770761 9780226770765 9780226770741 0226770745 PB - Chicago London University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Italian Americans KW - Italians KW - Ethnicity KW - Ethnic neighborhoods KW - Ethnic identity KW - History KW - philadelphia, toronto, italian immigrants, neighborhood, community, little italy, assimilation, heritage, identity, italian-american, immigration, ethnicity, nonfiction, history, geography, turf, boundaries, deindustrialization, employment, labor, poverty, race, whiteness, acceptance, economic restructuring, segregation, suburbanization, canada, united states, real estate, religion, housing, work, courtship, marriage, family. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138115362 AB - Despite their twin positions as two of North America's most iconic Italian neighborhoods, South Philly and Toronto's Little Italy have functioned in dramatically different ways since World War II. Inviting readers into the churches, homes, and businesses at the heart of these communities, Staying Italian reveals that daily experience in each enclave created two distinct, yet still Italian, ethnicities. As Philadelphia struggled with deindustrialization, Jordan Stanger-Ross shows, Italian ethnicity in South Philly remained closely linked with preserving turf an ER -