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Article: ANTICOMMUNISM, AMERICANIZATION, AND ETHNIC IDENTITY: ITALIAN AMERICANS AND THE 1948 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN ITALY.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Italian Americans were one of the largest ethnic minorities in the United States in the late 1940s. According to the 19.50 census, the United States was home to 1,427,145 Italian immigrants and 3,143,405 American-born people of Italian parentage. Third-generation Italian Americans accounted for about two million persons, comprising nearly five percent of the total American population of Italian descent in 1950.(1) Most Italian immigrants came to the United States between 1881 and 1921, when the passing of restrictive American legislation ended the era of mass immigration. While the vast majority of Italian newcomers were laborers, full employment and high wages in World ...