The Italian American experience : an encyclopedia

Contents include: Anti-Italian Discrimination Art Assimilation Bocce Business and Entrepreneurship Cold War Comedy Composers Crime and Organized Crime Dance Education Ethnic neighborhoods Family Life Italian American Image in Cinema Folklore Geneology and Family History Greenwich Village Italian American Jews Italian Language in America Jazz Labels and Stereotypes Law Enforcement Literature Medicine Actors and Actresses Occupations Opera Organizations Inventors Poetry Politics Italian American Press Protestantism Radicalism Radio Religion Science Frank Sinatra Sports Television Theater History Women and the Church