Maria Laurino: 3 books
by Maria Laurino
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
A warm, smart, and witty personal investigation of ethnicity and womanhood.
In the second-generation immigrant home where Maria Laurino grew up, “independent” was a dirty word and “sacrifice” was the ideal and reality of motherhood. But out in the world, Mary Tyler Moore was throwing...
by Maria Laurino
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This richly researched, beautifully illustrated volume illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history.
From extensive archival materials and interviews with well-known Italian Americans, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long...
by Maria Laurino
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2001
"One of the best books about the immigrant experience in America....unique and gracefully written."—San Francisco Chronicle
Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity....