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Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Silva, Reinaldo Francisco (author)
Genre:: articles
Subject:: Conforti, Joseph A.; Group identity; Italian Americans; Portuguese Americans; Azores; United States; Fall River (Mass.); Emigration and immigration in literature; Portuguese Americans in literature
Extent:: pp. 92-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/ast8-qf85

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Abstract:: Another City Upon a Hill: A New England Memoir (2013), by Joseph A. Conforti, tells the story of a once prosperous and dynamic city – Fall River, Massachusetts – during the decades of intensive textile manufacturing to its demise. Within this piecemeal industrial account of “Spindle City,” as it was then known as, lies a riveting coming of age story of a young man and his immediate Azorean/Portuguese (on his mother’s side) and Italian (on his father’s side) families. A product of a hybrid, that is, biological and cultural milieux, Conforti tells his readers how he had to negotiate these two identities while squeezing more and more into the mainstream – represented by the sports he engaged in and his scholarly pursuits in higher education. At the time, ethnic heritage and the racial stereotypes associated with both Latin heritages mattered there.; Another City Upon a Hill: A New England Memoir (2013), de Joseph A. Conforti, conta a história de uma cidade outrora próspera e dinâmica — Fall River, Massachusetts —, durante as décadas de intensa atividade têxtil até seu fim. Dentro deste relato industrial fragmentado de “Spindle City”, como era então conhecida, encontra-se uma fascinante história de amadurecimento de um jovem e suas famílias açorianas/portuguesas (por parte de sua mãe) e italianas (por parte de seu pai). Produto de um meio híbrido, ou seja, biológico e cultural, Conforti conta aos seus leitores como teve que negociar essas duas identidades enquanto se acomodava cada vez mais no mainstream — representado pelos desportos que praticava e as suas atividades académicas no ensino superior. Nessa altura, a herança étnica e os estereótipos raciais associados a ambas as identidades latinas eram relevantes.

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Silva, Reinaldo Francisco, "Breaking Free from Ethnicity and Dissolving within the Mainstream" (2022). Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-North American Letters and Studies. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/ast8-qf85

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Gávea-Brown—A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-North American Letters and Studies Vol. 46

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Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-North American Letters and Studies

Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-North American Letters and Studies (ISSN: 2641-0400) is published annually by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University, and made possible with support from the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD). The journal …

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Breaking Free from Ethnicity and Dissolving within the Mainstream