At the beginning of 1974, I received an Alicia Patterson fellowship to study recent immigrants to the United States and their relationship to the rest of American society. At the time, there was little public awareness of the continuing importance of immigration in American life;
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — St. Timothy’s is one of the many Roman Catholic churches serving the barrios of a city almost evenly divided between Anglos and residents of Mexican descent. Some of the parishioners are second-, third- and fourth-generation Mexican-American citizens, while others are more
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — It in a humid ninety-degree evening in August, and the vegetable vendor who works the Carroll Street subway station has decided to go home early. His cucumbers are wilted and his horse is tired. The old man and his horse-drawn vegetable cart
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Natale and Rosa Maria DeCarolis, both in their mid-forties, uprooted their family two years ago to immigrate to the United States. Ton years before, they had left their native Mola di Bari for an industrial town north of Genoa. They finally decided
MOLA DI BARI, Italy — In this small town on the Adriatic Sea, the main form of recreation for young people is embodied in the phrase passeggiare la piazza — to take a walk in the piazza. Every evening, young men and women come to
