Review of Remembering Italian America: Memory, Migration, Identity

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

Summer 2022

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Abstract

Remembering is crucial to the formation of collective identities, and oral histories, as repositories of collective memory, play a fundamental role in shaping the identities of migrant communities. In what way, then, do memories influence the construction of a diasporic identity? And what constitutes memory? Those questions define the goals of Remembering Italian America: to examine the role of memory in the process of identity formation in Italian American communities and to interrogate its relevance to other diasporic communities and debates about immigration.

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