Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. introduction. All Things Italian 1
5. part one. Immigrants Encounter and Remake U.S. Consumer Society The Shaping of Italian American Identities Through Commodities and Commercial Leisure, 1900– 1930
6. 1. Visibly Fashionable. 35
7. 2. Making Space for Domesticity 57
8. 3. In Italy Everyone Enjoys It—Why Not in America? 71
9. 4. Sovereign Consumption 83
10. 5. Consuming La Bella Figura 100
11. 6. Radical Visions and Consumption 117
12. part two. The Politics and Style of Italian American Consumerism, 1930– 1980
13. 7. Italian Americans, the New Deal State, and the Making of Citizen Consumers 137
14. 8. Italian Americans, Consumerism, and the Cold War in Transnational Perspective 148
15. 9. Italian Doo-Wop 163
16. 10. Consuming Italian Americans 178
17. part three. Consuming Italian American Identities in the Multicultural Age, 1980 to the Present
18. 11. The Double Life of the Italian Suit 195
19. 12. Sideline Shtick 207
20. 13. The Immigrant Enclave as Theme Park 225
21. 14. We Are Family 244
22. Notes 257
23. Contributors 303
24. Index 305