Age of Discovery and early settlement
Italian navigators and explorers played a key role in the exploration and settlement of the Americas by Europeans. Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo … 查看更多內容

During the period of mass immigration to the United States, Italians suffered widespread discrimination in housing and employment. They were often victims of prejudice, economic exploitation, and sometimes even violence, particularly in the South. … 查看更多內容

In the 2000 U.S. Census, Italian Americans constituted the fifth largest ancestry group in America with about 15.6 million people, 5.6% of the total U.S. population. Sicilian Americans are … 查看更多內容

• Alba, Richard D. Italian Americans: Into the twilight of ethnicity (Prentice Hall, 1985)
• Baily, Samuel L. Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914 (1999) Online in ACLS History E-book Project 查看更多內容

Italian Americans have influenced the American culture and society in a variety of ways, such as: foods, coffees and desserts; wine production (in California and elsewhere … 查看更多內容

Little Italies were, to a considerable extent, the result of Italophobia. The ethnocentrism and anti-Catholicism exhibited by the earlier Anglo-Saxon and northern European settlers helped … 查看更多內容

• Anti-Italianism
• Immigration to the United States
• Italian-American cuisine
• Italian diaspora
• Italophilia 查看更多內容