Little Italy

Little Italy is a general name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood. The concept of "Little Italy" holds many different aspects of the Italian culture. There are shops selling Italian goods as well as Italian restaurants lining the streets. A "Little Italy" strives essentially to have a version of the country of Italy placed in the middle of a large non-Italian city. This sort of enclave is often the result of periods of immigration in the past, during which people of the same culture settled together in certain areas. As cities modernized and grew, these areas became known for their ethnic associations, and ethnic neighborhoods like "Little Italy" blossomed, becoming the icons they are today.

For other uses, see Little Italy (disambiguation).
Arthur Avenue, a Little Italy in the Bronx, New York

List of Little Italys

Australia

Canada
Little Italy in Ottawa
Sign of College Street, centre of Little Italy, Toronto

United Kingdom

United States
Little Italy, Manhattan, New York, ca.1900.
See also: List of Italian-American neighborhoods

Republic of Ireland

Sweden

Other Italian neighborhoods

Some Italian neighborhoods may have other names, but are colloquially referred to as "Little Italy," including:

Argentina

Australia

Brazil

Canada

Chile

Kenya

Mexico

South Africa

United Kingdom

United States
See also: List of Italian-American neighborhoods

Venezuela

See also

References
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  2. Bleyer, Jennifer (30 December 2007). "Another Little Italy, With Scant Parking to Match" – via NYTimes.com.
  3. "Italian-Americans Welcome Neighbors With Open Arms At Il Centro - BKLYNER". bklyner.com.
  4. Hughes, C. J. (26 April 2017). "Rosebank, Staten Island: A Little Italy, Trying Not to Shrink" – via NYTimes.com.
  5. "A Guide To Boston's Little Italy: The North End". 2 March 2011.
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  7. Reisman, Lisa (4 January 2019). "Branford teacher remembers Little Italy in New Haven's Wooster Square in pictorial book". New Haven Register.
  8. Mariani, John. "Best Of The Midwest: Eating Around St. Louis, Part Two". Forbes.
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  11. Persichilli, Angelo (2004-01-19). "In Hamilton, Stoney Creek is called 'Tony Creek'". Hill Times.

Further reading
  • Buzzelli, Michael (2001). "From Little Britain to Little Italy: an urban ethnic landscape study in Toronto". Journal of Historical Geography. 27 (4): 573–587. doi:10.1006/jhge.2001.0355.
  • Frunza, Bogdana Simina. Streetscape and Ethnicity: New York's Mulberry Street and the Redefinition of the Italian American Ethnic Identity (ProQuest, 2008)
  • Gabaccia, Donna R. (2007). "Inventing 'Little Italy'". Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 6 (1): 7–41. doi:10.1017/S1537781400001596. JSTOR 25144462.
  • Gabaccia, Donna R. (2006). "Global Geography of 'Little Italy': Italian Neighbourhoods in Comparative Perspective" (PDF). Modern Italy. 11 (1): 9–24. doi:10.1080/13532940500489510.
  • Harney, Robert F. "Toronto's Little Italy, 1885-1945." in Robert F. Harney and J. Vincenza Scarpaci, eds. Little Italies in North America (1981): 41-62.
  • Immerso, Michael. Newark's little Italy: The vanished first ward (Rutgers University Press, 1999).
  • Juliani, Richard N. Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians Before Mass Migration (Penn State Press, 2005)
  • Pozzetta, George E. "The Mulberry District of New York City: The Years before World War One." in Robert F. Harney and J. Vincenza Scarpaci, eds. Little Italies in North America (Toronto: The Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1979) pp: 7-40.
  • Sandler, Gilbert. The Neighborhood: The Story of Baltimore's Little Italy (Bodine & Associates, 1974).
  • Worrall, Janet E. (2004). "The impact of the Ku Klux Klan and prohibition on Denver's little Italy". Journal of the West. 43 (4): 32–40.
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