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The community study has been a mainstay of immigration history. In recent years, however, immigration historians have been moving away from this model, particularly as the emphasis in the field has shifted from understanding community organization and work life, for example, to the construction of ethnic identity and whiteness studies. The innovation of Stefano Luconi's treatment of Philadelphia's Italians is in how it uses the familiar community study model to address these newer themes. From Paesani to White Ethnics traces the evolution of ethnic identity among Philadelphia's Italians, from the initial regional identities that the largely southern Italian population brought with them in the latter half of the nineteenth century to the development of a national Italian identity and a later identification with other European ethnics based on a shared sense of whiteness. Luconi cites “ethnic defensiveness” as the major determinant in the formation of ethnic identity, first in response to anti-Italian sentiment in the 1920s and 1940s and eventually against the perceived challenges posed by African Americans in the 1960s and 1970s in the areas of housing, schooling, and labor relations.

Special double issue of WWQR, with seven essays, listed separately in this bibliography, selected from the international Whitman conference held in Camden, New Jersey, in October 1998 at the Rutgers-Camden campus; and with an introduction--"Introduction: 'The Many Cultures of Walt Whitman'" (141-144)--by Hoffman, Sill, and Singley.

Journal Article “Flight of Memory: Long Island's Aeronautical Past.” Port Washington Public Library, One Library Dr., Port Washington, NY 11050 Get access Sally Yerkovich Sally Yerkovich New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1014–1018, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953096 Published: 01 December 1997

Journal Article The New Niagara: Tourism, Technology, and the Landscape of Niagara Balls, 1776-1917. By William Irwin. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. xiv, 276 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-271-01534-9. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-271-01593-4.) Get access Kenneth Myers Kenneth Myers New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1388–1389, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952939 Published: 01 March 1997