 | The Varieties of Ethnic Experience: Kinship, Class, and Gender among California Italian-Americans Subjects: Italian American families -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area; Italian Americans -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Ethnic identity; Kinship -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area; San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Social conditions; Taking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in the United States, this book challenges the model of uniform ethnic family and community culture, and argues for a reconsideration of the meaning of class, kinship, and gender in America's past and present. Micaela di Leonardo is a consultant with the National Academy of Sciences and has taught at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. |
