Date/Time
Sunday 03/14/2021
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Categories
The Italian community of San Francisco has been one of the most investigated in Italian American history. Rarely, however, has its experience been examined in relation to the distinctively multiethnic context of the West Coast. Italian immigrants, arriving to California between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, encountered different social complexities in comparison to the East Coast—especially given California’s relationship to Mexico as well as the high number of Asian immigrants.
The Museo presents a conversation with historian Tommaso Caiazza on how Italians integrated into California, offering an interethnic perspective on such topics as identity, labor, and neighborhoods.
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Tommaso Caiazza teaches history and philosophy at the Liceo Federigo Enriques (Rome, Italy). He holds a doctorate in social history from the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari and is working on a book manuscript about Italians in San Francisco based on his dissertation research. He has written several articles on Italian Americans in San Francisco and Northern California, including, most recently, “Are Italians white? The Perspective from the Pacific,” in California Italian Studies (2018) and “Razza e organizzazione del lavoro agricolo in California (1870-1917)”, in N. Mignemi et alii, Pluriattività rurale e lavoro agricolo in età contemporanea (secoli XIX-XX) (2020).
Laura Ruberto is a Humanities professor at Berkeley City College and a 2020-2021 Mellon Foundation – American Council of Learned Society Faculty Fellow. She has published widely on Italian and Italian American film, material culture, and cultural theories of migration, including her book Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women’s Work in Italy and the U.S. Her recent collaborative editorial work includes the two-volume collection, New Italian Migrations to the United States on immigration since 1945 and Italia senza frontiere/Borderless Italy, a thematic issue of California Italian Studies.
Photo: Vintage postcard | Military US Navy Ship Marine Adder, circa 1940s
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