Books on Italian American culture

Growing up and growing old in Italian-American families by Colleen Leahy Johnson.  New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1985.

Finding Italian roots: the complete guide for Americans by John Philip Colletta.  Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2003.
Discusses Italian-American genealogical research in the United States and in Italy.

The hyphenated American: the hidden injuries  of culture by John C. Papajohn. Westport: Greenwood, 1999.
Part of a psychology series. Presents cultural assimilation case studies on various American ethic groups including Italian Americans.

Images, a pictorial history of Italian Americans by Helen Barolini.  New York : Center for Migration, 1986.

Immigrants speak: Italian Americans tell their story by Salvatore J. LaGumina. New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1981.
Collection of Italian American biographies.

The Italian American experience by Philip di Franco. New York: Tom Doherty, 1988.
A history of Italians in America and Italian-Americans.

The Italian American experience : an encyclopedia edited by Salvatore J. LaGumina [et al.]  New York : Garland Pub., 2000.

Italian American family album by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. NewYork: Oxford University, 1994.
A History of Italian Americans and Italian American families.

The Italian Americans by Allon Schoener.  New York : Macmillan, c1987.

Italian Americans of the twentieth century edited by George Carpetto and Diane M. Evanac. Tampa: Loggia, 1999.
Collection of Italian American biographies.

Italian folktales in America : the verbal art of immigrant women by Elizabeth Mathias and Richard Raspa. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1985.
Collection of Italian American biographies.

The Italians in America [videorecording] by Greystone Communications for A&E Network.  New York : A&E Home Video, 1998.

La storia : five centuries of the Italian American experience by Jerre Mangione & Ben Morreale.  New York : HarperPerennial, 1993.

Street corner society (3rd ed.) by William Whyte. Chicago: Chicago University, 1981.
A history of Italian American neighborhoods and slums.

Voices of Italian America : a history of early Italian American literature with a critical anthology by Martino Marazzi.  Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2004.

Writing with an accent : contemporary Italian American women authors by Edvige Giunta.  New York, N.Y. : Palgrave, 2002.