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Memories of Belonging is a three-generation oral-history study of the offspring of southern Italians who migrated to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1913. Supplemented with the interviewees’ private documents and working from U.S. and Italian archives, Christa Wirth documents a century of transatlantic migration, assimilation, and later-generation self-identification. Her research reveals how memories of migration, everyday life, and ethnicity are passed down through the generations, altered, and contested while constituting family identities. The fact that not all descendants of Italian migrants moved into the U.S. middle class, combined with their continued use of hyphenated identities, points to a history of lived ethnicity and societal exclusion. Moreover, this book demonstrates the extent of forgetting that is required in order to construct an ethnic identity.

Italian Americans --- Ethnology --- Italians --- History. --- History --- Ethnic identity. --- United States --- Italy --- Worcester (Mass.) --- Worcester (Mass. : Town) --- Quinsigamond (Mass. : Plantation) --- Emigration and immigration --- Ethnic relations. --- Ethnic identity

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Interpretations of women in the antebellum period have long dwelt upon the notion of public versus private gender spheres. As part of the ongoing reevaluation of the prehistory of the women's movement, Carolyn Lawes challenges this paradigm and the primacy of class motivation. She studies the women of antebellum Worcester, Massachusetts, discovering that whatever their economic background, women there publicly worked to remake and improve their community in their own image. Lawes analyzes the organized social activism of the mostly middle-class, urban, white women of Worcester and finds that t

Women's rights --- Women political activists --- Women social reformers --- Political activists --- Social reformers --- Rights of women --- Women --- Human rights --- History --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Children's Friend Society --- History. --- Worcester (Mass.) --- Worcester (Mass. : Town) --- Quinsigamond (Mass. : Plantation) --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Sources.