Madeiros, Celestino, 126, 128
Madonna (singer), 204, 205–7, 265
Madonna (Virgin Mary), 9, 11, 108, 109, 110, 111–13, 112, 113, 114–115, 114, 207
Mafia, 32–34, 36, 61–62, 141, 242
Black Hand tied to, 51, 80
five “families” of, 229, 229, 236
Hollywood’s portrayal of, 233, 234, 235, 236, 238, 244–45
Italians stereotyped as, 35, 37, 56, 80, 202, 250, 251
Kefauver Committee hearings and, 224–25, 228–29
silence code (omertà) of, 228, 236
use of term, 33, 34, 225
see also organized crime
Maggio, Angelo (char.), 202, 204
Magliocco, Giuseppe, 229
Maida, 182
malocchio (evil eye), 8, 8
Mangione, Jerre, 173–74
Manhattan College, 217
Marcantonio, Vito, 78, 152–53, 152, 160
“March on Rome,” 161, 169
“Marriage,” 214
Married to the Mob, 236
Martello, Il, 163
Martin, Dean, 198, 199, 203, 205, 223
Martin, Peter, 211–12, 211
Martini, Allen V., 178
Maryland, 133, 255
Massachusetts, 4, 94, 120, 124, 125–26, 128–29
Massachusetts state militia, 95
Massachusetts Supreme Court, 128
Matera, 26
materialism, 8, 11, 211, 217
Mathis, June, 88
Matranga (Italian stevedore), 34–35
Mayes, Frances, 262
Mayor La Guardia Calling Rome, 178
Mazzini, Giuseppe, 19, 96, 168
McCormick, Anne O’Hare, 161
McCray, Chirlane, 253–54
McGill University, 96
McKinley, William, 124
Medicare, 190
Mencken, H. L., 90, 163–64
Men of Respect, 245
Messina, 33
Metropolitan Opera, 170
Metternich, Prince Klemens von, 21
Meucci, Antonio, 25
Michelangelo, 61
Mickey Blue Eyes, 236
Milan, 82, 91, 260, 265
military, U.S., 173, 176
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 129
Miller, Henry, 219
Miller’s Crossing, 245
Milton, Pa., 181
Mission District, San Francisco, 63
Mississippi Freedom Summer campaign, 217
Missoula, Mont., 185, 187, 188
Mob Wives, 238, 239
Molinari, Filippo, 187
Molise, 96, 255
Mondale, Walter, 248, 248, 249
moonshine, 138
Moonstruck, 238
Moore, Fred, 126
moralism, 135
Moran, George “Bugs,” 140
Morelli, Joe, 126
Morgan, J. P., 68, 121, 162
Mount Carmel Catholic Church, 207–8
Murray, Natalia Danesi, 177–78
Murray, William, 178
Mussolini, Benito, 159–67, 168, 169–70, 174, 187, 217, 253
Black Shirt army of, 161, 162, 182
civil liberties suppressed by, 162, 163–64, 167, 167
as idol for Italian Americans, 159, 161, 162–63, 165
secret police of, 166, 171
World War II and, 169, 177–78, 193
My Cousin Vinny, 238
Naples, 18, 39, 77, 82, 107, 109, 243, 253
Napoleonic Wars, 17
National Broadcasting Company (NBC), 171, 177, 227
Symphony Orchestra of, 171
National Organization for Women, 247
Nazis, Nazism, 178, 197
Neapolitan troops, 20
Near West Side Planning Board, 230
Never-Ending Wrong, The (Porter), 128–29
New Deal, 148, 151, 153–54, 225, 247
New Jersey, 55, 123, 159, 178, 182, 199, 200, 209, 214, 237, 241
New Left, 218
New Orleans, La., 29–33, 31, 32, 34–37, 34, 247
corruption in, 34, 35
housing conditions in, 32
lynchings in, 29, 36–37, 36, 37, 225
New Orleans, Port of, 31
newspaper strike, 155
New York, N.Y., 58, 88, 89, 145, 171, 180, 200, 219, 251, 252–54, 264
annual budget of, 148
banned books sold in, 220–21
Catholic faith in, 107, 110–12, 114
corruption in, 145, 147, 147, 152, 153
elections in, 151–52
fascism in, 159–60
finances of, 153–55
garment strike (1926) in, 151
housing in, 43–44, 49, 77, 148, 148, 150, 153, 155
as immigration port, 30, 66, 77–78, 146–47
Italian education in, 86–87, 87
Italian immigrant food shops in, 49–50, 259–60, 259
Italian population in, 49, 64, 77, 78, 145, 153
Kefauver Committee hearings in, 226–28
La Guardia’s contributions to, 154–56
Littly Italy in, 49, 50, 51, 57, 58, 236, 260
organized crime in, 136, 140–41, 223
poverty and deprivation in, 43–44, 49, 120
Prohibition in, 136, 140–41
strikers’ children sent to, 99, 100, 101
terrorism in, 51–55, 62, 117, 121–22, 124
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in, 97–98, 131, 133
New York City Center, 155
New York City Police Department, 57
New York Harbor, 39, 43
New York Philharmonic, 155, 170
New York Poets Theatre, 219
New York Public Library, 154
New York State, 252
New York Times, 11, 36, 57, 160, 161, 251
New York Times Magazine, 247–48
New York University, Law School at, 146
Niceforo, Alfredo, 81–82
Normandy, Battle of, 179
North Beach, Calif., 61, 65, 66, 69, 71
Northern Exposure, 239
Northern Italy, Northern Italians:
achievements of, 17, 162
immigrants from, 61–63, 65
landscape of, 17
physical appearance of, 62
Southern Italians compared to, 17, 61–62, 80–82
Southern Italy as perceived by, 18, 22, 81
Not Fade Away, 239
O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 243
Ocean City, N.J., 182
Ocean’s Eleven, 205
Odyssey (Homer), 1
“Odyssey of a Wop, The” (Fante), 90–91
Old World in the New, The (Ross), 82
Olympia Press, 220
Onesti, Alberto, 173, 174
Opinione, L’, 163
Oppenheim, James, 104
organized crime, 139–42, 251
bootlegging and, 136–37, 138, 139, 141, 223
Hollywood films on, 234, 236, 237
Kefauver Committee hearings on, 224–28, 226, 227
law enforcement of, 155–56, 156, 234–35
Prohibiton as catalyst for, 135, 136–37, 141, 142, 223
violence of, 139–40
see also Mafia
Other Italy, The (de Blasio), 253
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 9, 11, 110, 111, 114–15, 114
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (PA), 11
padrone system, 42, 44
Palermo, 20, 30, 33, 58, 82
Palestine, 171
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 122–23, 123, 124
Palmer raids, 124
Papal States, 17
Paramount Theatre, 197, 199, 201
Parker, Charlie, 198
Parkerson, William S., 35–36
Passione, 243, 245
Patrizi, Ettore, 164, 191
Pay or Die (film), 58
payroll robberies, 124, 125–26, 128–29
Pearl Harbor attack, 168, 169, 18
5, 187
Pelosi, Nancy, 247, 252, 252, 255–57
Pennsylvania, 4, 5, 11–12, 43, 97
Pennsylvania Railroad, 165
Perry Como Show, The, 198
Petrosino, Adelina, 58
Petrosino, Giuseppe “Joseph,” 53, 53, 54, 57–58
Philadelphia, Pa., 100
Phoenix bookstore, 219, 220
Piacenza, 180
Piccirilli Brothers, 154, 157
Piedmont, 62, 82, 119
Pileggi, Nicholas, 235–36
Pitt, Brad, 205
Pittsburgh, Calif., 187–88
Pittsburgh, Pa., 51
Planned Parenthood, 99
plantations, 29, 30–31
Plasterer’s union card, 154
Plaza Hotel, 180
Poconos, 4, 7
poetry, 211–12, 213–14, 214, 219
Poet’s Press, 219
Polish criminals, 56
Polla, 110, 111, 115
Pontillo, Giovanna, 52–55
Pope, Generoso, 160, 165, 166–67, 168, 168, 191
Portale, Alfred, 261
Porter, Cole, 200
Porter, Katherine Anne, 128–29
Portuguese immigrants, 93
press, 37
anarchist, 118
fascist propaganda and, 159, 160, 161–63, 164, 165, 167, 168, 175
Italian restrictions on, 163–64
patriotic, 173
see also specific publications
“Prisoner of Love,” 198
Proclamation 2527, 185
Progressive Party, 148–49
Progresso, Il, 160, 164, 165, 167, 168, 168, 173, 176, 178, 191
Prohibition, 135–42, 145, 151, 151
as catalyst for organized crime, 135, 136–37, 141, 142, 223
end of, 141
see also bootlegging
Proletario, Il, 95
propaganda:
American, 23, 30, 62, 94, 177–78
Italian, 159, 163, 165, 168
Protestant lawmakers, 135, 135
Protestant reformers, 142
Protestant social workers, 79, 79
Provenzano (Italian stevedore), 34
Pug Uglies, 50
pushcarts, 49–50
Puzo, Mario, 203, 233–34, 234, 236
Queen, 206
Queen of the Big Time, The (Trigiani), 11
Queens, N.Y., 57, 198, 217, 243, 248
Queens College, 217
Questione Meridionale (Niceforo), 81–82
Quiz Show, 243
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 234–35
racketeering, 234–35
radio, 175–76
Raffetto’s pasta shop, 50
Rat Pack, 203, 205, 207
Ravenite Social Club, 236
Reagan, Ronald, 218, 249, 250
real estate, 61, 68
Real Estate Board of New York, 150
Real Housewives of New Jersey, The, 238
Recollections of My Life as a Woman (Di Prima), 219–21
Red and the Black, The (Stendhal), 213
Red Scare, 124
Red Shirts (Thousand), 20, 24, 169
Reed, Jimmy, 207
Reggio di Calabria, 265
Reininger, Gustave, 214
relocation program, 186, 187, 188, 189, 192, 193
rent control bill, 150
Republican Party, 147, 147, 152, 167, 251
Resistance, 178
Rhode Island, 81
Riddle, Nelson, 204
Riis, Jacob, 44
Rimbaud, Arthur, 213
Ripabottoni, 96
Risorgimento, 20–21, 81, 84
Roach Guards, 50
“Roberto” (Rome, Berlin, Tokyo), 186
Rocco, Angelo, 95–96
Rockefeller, John D., 121, 122, 162
Rockford Files, The, 239
Roman Empire, 159, 161, 166
Romano, Michael, 261
Rome, 24, 25, 33, 166
Italian annexation of (1870), 17
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 122, 145, 145, 165, 168, 168, 217
Columbus Day and, 159
elected president, 151
Italian fascism and, 160, 166–67, 191
New Deal and, 151
World War II and, 185, 187, 192
WPA created by, 153, 154
Roosevelt, Theodore, 58
Rosetans, 4–9, 6
Roseto, Pa., 5–10, 6, 11–14, 17, 110, 268
“Roseto Effect,” 7, 249
Roseto Valfortore, 4–5, 6–7, 11–12, 269
Rosie the Riveter, 176, 177, 177
Ross, Edward Alsworth, 82
Rossi, Angelo, 145, 145, 190–91, 191
Rothstein, Arnold, 141
Russia, 117, 124, 176
Russian criminals, 56, 235
Rustic Cabin, 200
Sabetti, Luigi, 5
Sacco, Nicola, 118–20, 118, 121, 123–26, 125, 127, 128–29, 130, 133, 162
Sacrament, Calif., 62
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 107
saints, patron, 108–11, 117, 207
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 139, 140
Salem, Mass., 103
Salerno, 57, 110
Salute è in voi!, La (Galleani), 121
Salvemini, Gaetano, 168
San Francisco, Calif., 61–72, 61, 145, 145, 191
banking in, 67–70, 73–74
corruption in, 68
Great Earthquake in, 64, 66, 66, 69–71, 264
housing in, 61, 62, 65
Italian neighborhoods of, 63
Italian population of, 64
Latin Quarter of, 63
rebuilding of, 66, 70, 71
restricted zones in, 188
San Gennaro, Feast of, 107
Sanger, Margaret, 99
San Mateo, Calif., 69
Sardinia, Kingdom of, 20
Saturday Evening Post, 161, 162
Saturday Night Fever, 238, 238
Savio, Dora, 217
Savio, Joseph, 217
Savio, Mario, 211, 215–19, 216, 223
Sbarboro, Andrea, 65
Scala, Charles, 231
Scala, Florence, 230–31, 231
Scalia, Antonin, 249–50, 250
Scarface, 227
Scatena, Lorenzo, 67–68, 69
Scorsese, Martin, 227, 235–36
seamstresses, 150, 150
Sebastian, Saint, 109, 207
Selassie, Haile, 166, 167
Senate, U.S., 226, 228, 229, 249
Sephardic Jews, 145
“Sermon on the Commons,” 97
Sforza, Carlo, 168
Shahn, Ben, 129
Shakespeare, Joseph A., 32, 34
Shark Tale, 236
Sheik, The, 89
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 213
Sicilian immigrants, 52
agricultural background of, 30
appearance of, 32, 80
as California fishermen, 63–64, 190
in Louisiana, 30, 31, 32–33, 36, 247
Mafia and, 32–33, 36, 56, 61–62
on plantations, 29, 30–31
as stereotype of southern Italian immigrants, 80, 81, 82
Sicily:
agricultural society in, 30, 33
conditions in, 21, 30
Garibaldi’s army in, 19–21, 21, 25, 29, 169
Mafia in, 33, 34
peasants from, 19, 20, 21, 21
Petrosino’s murder in, 53, 57, 58
in World War II, 178–79
Siegel, Benjamin “Bugsy,” 142, 223
Siena, Angelina, 54–55, 54, 56
Siena, Rocco, 52, 55
Sierra Nevada, 62
Silone, Ignazio, 22
Sinatra, Frank, 3, 197, 197, 198–203, 201, 203, 204, 207, 211, 223
Sinatra, Nancy (daughter), 205
Sinatra, Nancy (wife), 202
Sinclair, Upton, 125, 129
sl
ate quarries, 5, 6, 11
slaves, slavery, 29, 30
padrone system compared to, 42
slot machines, 156, 156, 224
Small Business Administration, 14
smallpox, 44
Smeal, Eleanor Cutri, 247
socialism, 117, 132
Social Security, 190
Soderbergh, Steven, 205
Sole, 163
Sonoma State University, 218–19
Soprano, Livia (char.), 242
Soprano, Tony (char.), 141, 237, 241
Sopranos, The, 237, 237, 239, 241, 242
Sourian, Peter, 213
South Braintree, Mass., 124, 125
Southern Italy, Southern Italians:
agrarian economy of, 30, 33, 83
agricultural landscape of, 17, 18, 30, 31
American propaganda in, 23, 62, 94
Bourbon dynasty in, 20
culture of, 8, 85–86
education of, 84
immigrants from, 4–5, 17, 23, 23, 29, 41, 62, 65, 78, 80, 83–84
literacy of, 82, 84
Northern Italians compared to, 17, 61–62, 80–82
as peasants, 5, 8, 17–24, 18, 21, 27, 29, 31, 39, 44, 83, 108
poverty and harsh conditions in, 17–19, 21–23, 26–27, 27, 30, 40, 41, 61
religious devotion of, 107–8, 109
revolts in, 22
stereotypes of, 80, 81, 82
suffrage in, 22
taxes of, 21, 22
wages of, 18, 19
see also Sicilian immigrants; Sicily
Spain, 50
Spanish-American War, 146
speakeasies, 135, 136, 136, 140, 141
Springsteen, Bruce, 207
Stampa, La, 163
State Department, U.S., 29, 163
Staten Island, N.Y., 24, 25
Stendhal, 213
Steubenville, Ohio, 198
Stevenson, Adlai, 225
Stewart, Jimmy, 72
stock market crash (1929), 151
strikes, 93–104, 96, 104, 120, 151, 155
children sent away during, 99, 99, 100, 101, 102
Italian Americans as leaders of, 93, 94–96, 97, 98, 102–4, 131
in Italy, 98–99, 99, 161, 162
see also specific strikes
Supreme Court, U.S., 231, 249, 250
syphilis, 140
Taft, Howard, 100
Talese, Gay, 182–83
Tammany Hall, 145, 147, 147, 152, 153, 155, 228
Tampa, Fla., 29
Target, 263
Tarrytown, N.Y., 176–77
tax evasion, 140, 228
Teamsters, 141
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, 63, 69
tenant farmers, 30, 31
tenements, 43–44, 49, 77, 148, 148, 153, 207
Tennessee, 224–25
Teoli, Camella, 100–101
Terkel, Studs, 230, 231
terrorism, 51–55, 62, 117, 121–22, 124
textile mills, 93, 101, 102
“That’s Amore,” 198
Thayer, Webster, 125, 126, 128
“These Boots Are Made for Walkin’,” 205
Thousand (Red Shirts), 20, 24, 169
Time, 166, 223–24
Tivoli, 225
Tombs, 212
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