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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Diagrams and Tables -- Preface -- 1. "When a Person Speaks Sincere": The Setting and the Study -- 2. Italian Families, American Families: Immigration History and Settlement in California -- 3. "The Family is Soprattutto": Mobility Models, Kinship Realities, and Ethnic Ideology -- 4. "It's Kinda an Old Immigrant Thing": Economy, Family, and Collective Ethnic Identity -- 5. "Abbondanza Youself!": Abuse, Boundaries, and Ethnic Identity -- 6. "I Think God Helps Us": Women, Work, Ethnicity, and 178 Ideology -- 7. Kinship, Culture, and Economy in the American Context -- Appendix: A Comparative Test: Boston and San Francisco-Oakland Data -- References -- Index

Offers a historical analysis of the roots of the "discovery" of white ethnicity & its subsequent equation with righteousness in the US, & demonstrates the persistence of a race-oriented narrative in contemporary political & economic ideologies. Representations of various immigrant groups are examined, showing that their progression from overtly racist to more positive, but equally condescending, liberal portrayals as a Center-Right convergence of attitudes has occurred across the political spectrum. Two related political constructions are highlighted: women's culture & the urban underclass. It is demonstrated how contemporary political discourses about these two groups function symbiotically, eg, in the images of poor minority mothers. It is argued that President Bill Clinton's call for a new politics of meaning merely disguises the white male supremacist ideologies that have been used to stigmatize & oppress minorities since the time of the early-20th-century immigrants. K. H. Stewart