The Story of My People: From Rural Southern Italy to Mainstream America - Softcover

Mignone, Mario B

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599540894 ISBN 13: 9781599540894

Publisher: Bordighera Press, 2015

Synopsis

In The Story of My People, Mario Mignone gives eloquent testimony to the hopes, fears, struggles and ultimate triumph of his family's extraordinary journey from rural Italy to the American Dream. He also gives a poignant voice to the millions of other immigrants who left the Mezzogiorno for L'America. In the process, he shows how to perform the critical balancing act of embracing the future while preserving the past. - Stanislao G. Pugliese, Queensboro UNICO Distinguished Professor of Italian, Hofstra University

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About the Author

Mario Mignone is the founder and director of the Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University. He is director of student exchange programs with University of Rome La Sapienza and University of Messina. Mignone served as chairman of the department of French and Italian at Stony Brook for nine years, founded the Association of Italian American Educators and served as its first president. He is a former president of the Long Island Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Italian.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bordighera Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599540894
• ISBN 13: 9781599540894
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216