Italians

Cannelli, Antonio. La Colonia Italiana di New Haven. New Haven, 1921. We suspect this should be considered a primary source. Scholars have told us it is very useful.

Child, Irving Long. Italian or American? The Second Generation in Conflict. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943. Published for the Institute of Human Relations. "This study was made during the period just before the outbreak of the war in Europe and provides a background for understanding the position of Italian-Americans today [1942.]" This work, based on a 1939 Yale dissertation, is an effort at sociological analysis and description of acculturation.

D'Antonio, William V. "Confessions of a Third Generation Italian-American," Society 13(November-December, 1975)63. The author, who grew up in New Haven, is Chairman of the Sociology Department at the University of Connecticut. "He inaugurated the first large-scale investigation of ethnic factors in the state's history" since the 1990s. (Herbert Janick in Connecticut History 23 April, 1982 p.156)

Giola, Antonio. Fifty Years in My Adopted Country. Torrington: n. pub., 1959.

Johnston, Michael. "Italian New Haven: Building an Ethnic Identity." Journal of NHCHS 26(Summer, 1979)2:23-35. Emphasis on the geographic distinctions that Italians carried with them to the New World. Many quotations from interviews.

Myers, Jerome K. "Assimilation in the Political Community." Sociology and Social Research 35(January-February, 1951). Myers' subject was Italians in New Haven, 1890 to 1940. He attempted to find out how fast they were assimilated.  Eight pages.

--"Assimilation to the Ecological and Social Systems of a Community." American Sociological Review 15(June, 1950)5. A research paper on "the residential movement and distribution of New Haven Italians from 1890 to 1940, and the relationship of this movement to their incorporation into the social system of the city." A five-page article that looks as if Myers was trying to fatten his bibliography by publishing the same stuff twice.

Tamanio, A. J., and LaMacchia, L. N. The Italian-American Community in Bridgeport (1872-1953). Bridgeport: University of Bridgeport Sociology Colloquium, 1953. This is one of a series by undergraduate students under the supervision of Joseph Roucek, a widely published sociologist. The little pamphlets are generally terrible.