Table of Contents:
  • A Historical Survey
  • The Southern Answer: Making Little Italys
  • Inventing Italian America
  • Mythologies of Italian America: From Little Italys to Suburbs
  • Thematic Essays
  • Left Out: Three Italian American Writers of the 1930s
  • The Consequences of Class in Italian American Culture
  • Variations of Italian American Women's Autobiography
  • Criticism as Autobiography
  • We Weren't Always White: Race and Ethnicity in Italian American Literature
  • Linguine and Lust: Notes on Food and Sex in Italian American Culture
  • Conclusion: Leaving Little Italy: Legacies Real and Imagined.