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Article: Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven's Working Class, 1870-1940.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2007
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Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven's Working Class, 1870-1940. By Stephen Lassonde (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xvi, 301 pp. $45.00).
When studying immigrant Italian families in New Haven, Connecticut, researcher Vittorio Racca found that some families compared school to the folk medicinal remedy castor oil: America forced their children to swallow it, but school, like castor oil, would not influence their lives. (1) In Learning to Forget, Stephen Lassonde shows that this opinion reflected parents' hopes more than it accurately portrayed the changing relationships between schools and Italian families in New Haven. Using oral ...