DTS200Y1 Lecture Notes - National Italian American Foundation, Italianamerican, Italian Identity
20 Apr 2013
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The way in which people make sense in the world through the metaphor of mapping. The way you systematize the world in terms of a nation but this gets translated into diaspora. Ex: jersey shore: most successful television show of mtv. Brace relationship and class dynamics in north america. There is a distinction between italian canadians and american italians. This is a study about whiteness in the us. Italian americans: whiteness is understood by the physical colour of your skin, class and race and place. Self identifies as an italian american, italian and this could be creating an observer framework. Place understood as both a location in space example new jersey or italy. Harvey would call it actual space/physical space: 2. Place as ranks in a system of social categories- as in the expression know your place": both are tied to race, the second is more specific in terms to the hierarchy.
