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- Title
Buenos Aires and the making of italo-argentinidad, 1915–1919.
- Authors
Galante, John Starosta
- Abstract
This article explores the ways that different groups with Italian origins residing in Buenos Aires during the late 1910s expressed and deployed notions of solidarity built around their dual identifications with Argentina and Italy. It reviews the experiences of immigrants from Italy and children of Italian immigrants through their participation in a mobilization drive in favor of Italy’s involvement in World War I, a corresponding movement against the Italian war effort, an increase in Italian contributions to Argentine politics via the Radical Party, and a transformation of working-class activism in Argentina with the rise of Syndicalism. The article argues that each of these were representations of italo-argentinidad, a hyphenated or hybrid notion of belonging that connected residents of Buenos Aires to countries of residence and origin, but also set them apart from formulations of both Argentine and Italian national identifications.
- Subjects
BUENOS Aires (Argentina : Province); ARGENTINA; SOLIDARITY; RADICAL Party (Argentina); NATIONALISM; WORKING class; HISTORY
- Publication
Storia e Regione, 2018, Vol 27, Issue 1, p97
- ISSN
1121-0303
- Publication type
Article