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- Factors that relate to the persistence of first-generation undergraduate students in a public university.
- Creator
- Thachil, Shoba Anne, Zainuddin, Hanizah, College of Education, Department of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry
- Abstract/Description
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This study examined factors that relate to the persistence of first-generation undergraduate students in a 4-year public university in the Southeastern United States. Results were analyzed from a 2011 two-part survey: CARES-I (College Assessment of Readiness for Entering Students-Intent) and CARES-A (College Assessment of Readiness for Entering Students-Actual/Achieved. Semistructured interviews were conducted with first-generation undergraduate persisters, administrators, and professors....
Show moreThis study examined factors that relate to the persistence of first-generation undergraduate students in a 4-year public university in the Southeastern United States. Results were analyzed from a 2011 two-part survey: CARES-I (College Assessment of Readiness for Entering Students-Intent) and CARES-A (College Assessment of Readiness for Entering Students-Actual/Achieved. Semistructured interviews were conducted with first-generation undergraduate persisters, administrators, and professors. There was no statistically significant difference in persistence between continuing-generation and first-generation students. None of the factors, with the exception of performance goals on CARES A, were found to relate to persistence. Significant positive correlations were found between persistence and residential status, a learning strategies course, gender, high school GPA, and first semester in college GPA. The learning communities program was not found to significantly relate to persistence. The CARES surveys were found to be weak for predicting persistence. There was no significant interaction between any of the factors, persistence, and first-generation and continuing-generation, except for performance goals on CARES I and self-efficacy on CARES A. Findings from the interviews indicated that self-efficacy was highly important to graduation. The students had clear academic and professional, learning, monetary, and social outcome expectations. Student performance goals varied in amount of time, use of learning strategies, and organizational tools. Of the organizational variables, academic and social integration positively impacted persistence. However, the participants wished to have had higher grades as freshmen, found the STEM courses tough, had no informal interaction with administrators or professors, and did not use office hours enough. Students spoke positively of institutional programs, clubs, services, and organizations such as Supplemental Instruction (SI), the Math Lab, and Writing Center. Administrators and professors expressed a need for more information and responsiveness to persistence factors. Persistence was not impeded by family, friends, or work, whereas financial issues were prevalent. Although demographic variables did not negatively impact persistence, exo and macrosystem factors beyond the doors of the university emerged. Recommendations and options are provided for further research and for the university to improve persistence.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004065
- Subject Headings
- Achievement in education, Children of immigrants -- Education -- United States, First generation college students -- United States, Motivation in education, School improvement programs
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- What remittances can't buy: the social costs of migration and transnational gossip on women in Jacaltenango, Guatemala.
- Creator
- Sabbagh, Jocelyn., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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The academic debate on gender and migration has missed some of the key factors that impact women's lives and communities of origin. Interviews conducted in Jacaltenango, a Mayan sending community in Guatemala, suggest that while the migration of a spouse does bring substantial financial benefits there are significant individual and social costs that result from migration. More importantly, the interviews uncovered the crucial impact of transnational gossip on women's lives, a feature that has...
Show moreThe academic debate on gender and migration has missed some of the key factors that impact women's lives and communities of origin. Interviews conducted in Jacaltenango, a Mayan sending community in Guatemala, suggest that while the migration of a spouse does bring substantial financial benefits there are significant individual and social costs that result from migration. More importantly, the interviews uncovered the crucial impact of transnational gossip on women's lives, a feature that has been absent in previous academic treatments of gender and migration. Transnational gossip has exacerbated the negative effects of migration for women in migrant-sending locations, pushing women to stay in the "private sphere" and serving as a form of social control that keeps women from actively participating in their communities. For many women, long periods of time living apart from their spouses combined with fears about transnational gossip have brought severe loneliness, anxiety, health problems and even seclusion. This phenomenon is helping define the contemporary social structures of Jacaltenango, and represents one of the most important effects of migration in terms of the lived reality of spouses and families of the predominantly male immigrants who leave Mayan communities in Guatemala to seek work in the United States.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11603
- Subject Headings
- Women heads of households, Guatemalans, Family, Emigration and immigration, Social life and customs
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Bread givers and other nurturers.
- Creator
- Mincho, Jane., Florida Atlantic University, Nathan, Norman
- Abstract/Description
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Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts share the common themes of the restrictions placed on women, daughters of recent immigrants, who suffered from poverty, discrimination, and sexual repression both from within and without their cultural milieu. Woman Warrior is an epic poem, history mixed with myth, while Bread Givers is a fevered morality tale. Yezierska's world was full of Jewish patriarchal edicts, Kingston's bore...
Show moreAnzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts share the common themes of the restrictions placed on women, daughters of recent immigrants, who suffered from poverty, discrimination, and sexual repression both from within and without their cultural milieu. Woman Warrior is an epic poem, history mixed with myth, while Bread Givers is a fevered morality tale. Yezierska's world was full of Jewish patriarchal edicts, Kingston's bore the weight of matriarchal definition of her Chinese ancestor's beliefs. The mutual and overwhelming need to break the barriers of enforced silence created two rich human documents which by their very nature mediate the seemingly irreconcilable. Whether they are considered fiction, memoirs, or elegies, both books' outstanding contribution is reinforcement of the concept of self-determination which was attained without destroying either author's ethnic or cultural heritage.
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- 1988
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14473
- Subject Headings
- Yezierska, Anzia,--1880?-1970.--Bread givers., Kingston, Maxine Hong.--Woman warrior., Women immigrants--United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Americans all! The role of advertising in re-imaging ethnicity in America: the case of the war advertising council, 1939-1945.
- Creator
- May, Jacqueline S., Fejes, Fred A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
- Abstract/Description
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Throughout America’s history the call for laborers has been filled by influxes of immigrants. Coinciding with the arrival of the first non-Anglo Saxon immigrants were negative attitudes about them, as they were deemed inferior and classified as lowerranking “others” by the dominant culture that needed them. Thus, the cycle of need and resentment was born to be repeated throughout the Nation’s history. In the first half of the twentieth century a shift occurred in American public perception of...
Show moreThroughout America’s history the call for laborers has been filled by influxes of immigrants. Coinciding with the arrival of the first non-Anglo Saxon immigrants were negative attitudes about them, as they were deemed inferior and classified as lowerranking “others” by the dominant culture that needed them. Thus, the cycle of need and resentment was born to be repeated throughout the Nation’s history. In the first half of the twentieth century a shift occurred in American public perception of, and attitudes towards, immigrant groups including eastern European Jews, Italians and the Irish among others. This shift was marked primarily in terms of race: Some immigrants went from being considered black to white -- from illegitimate to legitimate by the dominant culture. One reason for the increased acceptance of these ethnic groups was a concerted campaign sponsored by the United States Government to promote an extended identity to groups that had previously been excluded from the mainstream. In particular, the goal was to create a sense of nationalism, or “Americanism,” among diasporic immigrant groups, thus encouraging their participation in the war effort. The result of such campaigns was a re-imaging of ethnic groups previously classified as non-white and a path to perceived whiteness, and thus inclusion, for them. These campaigns, formulated by the Office of War Information and executed largely by the War Advertising Council, led to a marked increase in acceptance for immigrant groups by the dominant culture. By examining social messages through visual cultural artifacts this study explores notions about race, ethnicity, whiteness and the role of communication theory and practices in constructing (imaging) an identity of otherness.” This study delineates the historical formation and subsequent partial de-construction (re-imaging) of negative depictions and some stereotypes of ethnic Americans. This research explores the sources of these attitudes and behaviors and how misconceptions, misrepresentations and centuries-old stereotypes of non-Anglo ethnic Americans have been fluid through changing social perceptions fueled, in part, by government interventions.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004136, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004136
- Subject Headings
- Advertising Council -- History -- 20th century, Americanization -- History -- 20th century, Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century, World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Propaganda
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A discourse before the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania, delivered October 24, 1834, in St. Paul's church, Philadelphia.
- Creator
- Tyson, Job R. (Job Roberts) 1803-1858, Bethune, George W. (George Washington) 1805-1862
- Abstract/Description
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At head of title: Read and circulate. "Printed by William S. Martien, No. 9 George street."--page [2]. "List of officers of the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania."--page [2]."Colonization hymns. The following hymns [by Mrs. Sigourney and Rev. G.W. Bethune] were written on the sailing of the Ninus, with one hundred and twenty-six enfranchised slaves, to found the new colony at Bassa Cove, October 24th, 1834 ..."--page [49]. "An account of the proceedings of the Young Men's...
Show moreAt head of title: Read and circulate. "Printed by William S. Martien, No. 9 George street."--page [2]. "List of officers of the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania."--page [2]."Colonization hymns. The following hymns [by Mrs. Sigourney and Rev. G.W. Bethune] were written on the sailing of the Ninus, with one hundred and twenty-six enfranchised slaves, to found the new colony at Bassa Cove, October 24th, 1834 ..."--page [49]. "An account of the proceedings of the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania, in connexion with their first expedition of coloured emigrants to Liberia, to found a new colony at Bassa Cove."--page [51]-55. "Report of committee. The committee appointed by the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania, to superintend the sailing of their first expedition, respectfully report:"--page 55-59. Signed: On behalf of the committee. Elliott Cresson. 10th mo. 31, 1834. "List of subscriptions and donations."--page [64]. Includes bibliographical references.
Show less - PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb11f24
- Subject Headings
- African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia, African Americans -- Liberia -- Emigration and immigration, Antislavery movements -- United States, Liberia -- Colonization, Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States, Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania
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- E-book
- Title
- Interview with Kimiko Kitani - ca. 2008.
- Creator
- Kitani, Kimiko (Interviewee), Craig, Ryan (Interviewer)
- Date Issued
- 2008-02-08
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT77800
- Subject Headings
- Personality and culture, Immigrants -- United States, International Exposition (Aichi, Japan), Exhibitions -- Japan -- Aichi, Exhibitions -- Spain -- Seville, International Exposition (Seville, Spain), Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
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- Set of related objects
- Title
- New York's little Syria, 18810-1935.
- Creator
- Shibley, Gregory J., Sanua, Marianne R., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis argues that, from 1880 to 1935, Syrian immigrants, who comprised an enclave on the Lower West Side of Manhattan in New York City, sought to control the pace and extent of their assimilation into mainstream American society, by distancing themselves from their ethnicity, or by using their ethnicity to their advantage, or by combining both approaches to varying degrees, as they determined individually, rather than monolithically.
- Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004160, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004160
- Subject Headings
- Syrians--United States--Emigration and immigration--19th century., Syrians--United States--Emigration and immigration--20th century., Syrians--United States--History--19th century., Syrians--United States--History--20th century., Syrian Americans--Ethnicity--History--20th century., Arab Americans--New York--Social conditions--19th century., Arab Americans--New York--Social conditions--20th century.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Florida Migrant Education Program: an analysis of programmatic and expenditure practices.
- Creator
- Murray, Robert W., College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
- Abstract/Description
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The Migrant Education Program was enacted by Congress in 1966 as an amendment to the Elementary and Second Education Act of 1965. Today Title 1, Part C, of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 provides funding to states and subsequently to local educational agencies (LEAs) to provide educational programs and services to children of migratory farm workers. These funds are intended to enable these unique children to have access to state standards-based curriculum and to find success on...
Show moreThe Migrant Education Program was enacted by Congress in 1966 as an amendment to the Elementary and Second Education Act of 1965. Today Title 1, Part C, of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 provides funding to states and subsequently to local educational agencies (LEAs) to provide educational programs and services to children of migratory farm workers. These funds are intended to enable these unique children to have access to state standards-based curriculum and to find success on standards-based assessments. This study examined the LEA utilization of funds awarded to the State of Florida under Title 1, Part C, from AY2007-09, identified the specific activities implemented by LEAs to meet the unique educational needs of the migrant students, and analyzed the impact of total student membership, total migrant entitlement, and concentration of migrant students relative to the total LEA student membership on the utilization of the funding. The study demonstrated that the Federal Office of Migrant Education policies and rules promulgated by the State of Florida channel funding away from educational activities for the students to non-academic expenditures.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2683135
- Subject Headings
- Immigrants, Education, Economic aspects, Children of migrant laborers, Education, Economic aspects, Children of migrant laborere, Education, Social aspects, Migrant labor, Education, Economic aspects, Educational accountability
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Interview with Adrienne Martin.
- Creator
- Martin, Adrienne, Iadevaia, Vincenza, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002999p
- Subject Headings
- Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
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- Set of related objects
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- More social capital please!: a study of a Brazilian immigrant community.
- Creator
- Esteves, Jessica., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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Researchers who study Brazilian immigrants in the United States have noted a lack of camaraderie and social networks among Brazilians. Based on recent research conducted in Broward County, Florida, Manuel Vâasquez argues that while there are clear structural impediments to community formation among Brazilian immigrants, Brazilians do form social networks. This thesis examines the survey and ethnographic data from Vâasquez's sample to test a series of hypotheses about which factors impact...
Show moreResearchers who study Brazilian immigrants in the United States have noted a lack of camaraderie and social networks among Brazilians. Based on recent research conducted in Broward County, Florida, Manuel Vâasquez argues that while there are clear structural impediments to community formation among Brazilian immigrants, Brazilians do form social networks. This thesis examines the survey and ethnographic data from Vâasquez's sample to test a series of hypotheses about which factors impact levels of social capital and the potential for network creation and mobilization among Brazilian immigrants. Analysis of the data suggests that religious participation and levels of perceived discrimination are correlated with higher levels of social capital in this sample. For a group of immigrants characterized by a lack of collective solidarity and facing an increasingly hostile economic and social climate, religious organizations may be essential locales for achieving sufficient social capital for social, economic, and political integration.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3335017
- Subject Headings
- Social capital (Sociology), Infrastructure (Economics), Social networks, Brazilian Americans, Social conditions, Brazilian Americans, Cultural assimilation, Brazilian Americans, Ethnic identity, Emigration and immigration
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Iranian American Older Adults’ Attitudes and Proactive Actions Toward Planning Ahead for End-of-Life Care.
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- Rahemi, Zahra, Dunphy, Lynne M., Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
- Abstract/Description
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Ethnically diverse older adults are the fastest growing population in the U.S. This population may experience transitional processes associated with immigration, acculturation, aging, and end of life (EOL). Advances in technology lead to increases in care options, which can cause uncertainty to make decisions for EOL. Unmade decisions about care prior to becoming unable to communicate are associated with burdens of last-minute decisions at EOL, unwanted intensive EOL treatments for people who...
Show moreEthnically diverse older adults are the fastest growing population in the U.S. This population may experience transitional processes associated with immigration, acculturation, aging, and end of life (EOL). Advances in technology lead to increases in care options, which can cause uncertainty to make decisions for EOL. Unmade decisions about care prior to becoming unable to communicate are associated with burdens of last-minute decisions at EOL, unwanted intensive EOL treatments for people who may die naturally of old age, financial and emotional costs, and decreased quality of life. In the U.S., a multicultural country with a variety of care options, advance directive (AD) completion and advance care planning (ACP) may improve culturally competent and person-centered care at EOL. However, the rate of AD completion and ACP is low among Americans, especially immigrant communities. These communities, including Iranian-American older adults, have been frequently understudied, and there is a gap in studies of EOL desires, attitudes, and actions/behaviors. This inquiry focused on planning ahead for EOL care across transitional processes that older immigrants may face. The aim was to enhance culturally competent care for older adults through distinguishing significant factors, which may influence planning for EOL care. Specific purposes were: To identify relationships between attitudes toward planning for EOL care and social supports, spirituality, healthcare system distrust, and acculturation; to identify a relationship between attitudes and proactive actions toward planning ahead in Iranian-American older adults. Conceptual frameworks for this descriptive, cross-sectional study included Culture Care Diversity and Universality and Transitions theories. Findings from 135 participants revealed that they were new immigrants to the U.S. (mean year of 23 in the U.S., 97% born in Iran) and highly educated and insured with high health statuses. About 55% preferred non-intensive treatments and/or homecare at EOL, and 52.6% had not communicated their EOL wishes. Attitudes toward planning ahead for EOL were positively associated with acculturation and healthcare system distrust, and negatively associated with spirituality. No significant association was found between attitudes and social support. Furthermore, favorable attitudes predicted higher proactive actions to communicate wishes. Implications for practice, policy, education, and recommendations for further studies were discussed.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004939
- Subject Headings
- Older people--Long-term care., Advance directives (Medical care), Health planning--United States., Right to die., Life care planning., Terminal care--Moral and ethical aspects., Immigrants--Psychology.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Interview with Vincent Zarrilli.
- Creator
- Zarrilli, Vincent, Iadevaia, Vincenza, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
- Date Issued
- 2017-02-03
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003472p
- Subject Headings
- Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
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- Set of related objects
- Title
- Interview with Dan Pichney.
- Creator
- Pichney, Dan, Iadevaia, Vincenza, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
- Date Issued
- 2017-02-17
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003474p
- Subject Headings
- Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
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- Set of related objects
- Title
- Interview with Ann Blumberg Capone.
- Creator
- Capone, Ann Blumberg, Iadevaia, Vincenza, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
- Date Issued
- 2017-03-24
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003476p
- Subject Headings
- Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
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- Set of related objects
- Title
- Interview with Edmondo Catania and Angie Catania.
- Creator
- Catania, Edmondo, Catania, Angie, Diraviam, Domenica
- Date Issued
- 2019-02-18
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003482p
- Subject Headings
- Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
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- Set of related objects
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- Interview with Jean Simonelli Giarrusso.
- Creator
- Giarrusso, Jean Simonelli, Iadevaia, Vincenza, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002997p
- Subject Headings
- Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
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- Set of related objects
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- Interview with Nicoletta Sorice (D'Vanzo).
- Creator
- Sorice, Nicoletta (D'Avanzo), Diraviam, Domenica, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
- Date Issued
- 2019-04-29
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003483p
- Subject Headings
- Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
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- Set of related objects
