Staying Italian Urban Change and Ethnic Life in Postwar Toronto and Philadelphia Historical Studies of Urban America 1st Edition by Jordan Stanger Ross ISBN 0226770745 9780226770741

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ISBN 10: 0226770745

ISBN 13: 9780226770741 

Author: Jordan Stanger-Ross

Despite their twin positions as two of North America’s most iconic Italian neighborhoods, South Philly and Toronto’s Little Italy have functioned in dramatically different ways since World War II. Inviting readers into the churches, homes, and businesses at the heart of these communities, Staying Italian reveals that daily experience in each enclave created two distinct, yet still Italian, ethnicities.

As Philadelphia struggled with deindustrialization, Jordan Stanger-Ross shows, Italian ethnicity in South Philly remained closely linked with preserving turf and marking boundaries. Toronto’s thriving Little Italy, on the other hand, drew Italians together from across the wider region. These distinctive ethnic enclaves, Stanger-Ross argues, were shaped by each city’s response to suburbanization, segregation, and economic restructuring. By situating malleable ethnic bonds in the context of political economy and racial dynamics, he offers a fresh perspective on the potential of local environments to shape individual identities and social experience.

Table of contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1 Cities Apart: Toronto and Philadelphia after World War II

2 Italian Markets: Real Estate Exchange and Ethnic Community

3 Invitations and Boundaries: Patterns of Religious Participation

4 Courtship, Marriage, and the Geography of Intimacy

5 Breaking the Mold: Work and Postwar Ethnicity

Conclusion
Notes
Index

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