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Broughton Brandenburg. Imported Americans
Imported Americans
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE IMPETUS AND THE METHOD
CHAPTER II. LIFE IN A NEW YORK ITALIAN TENEMENT
CHAPTER III. TO NAPLES IN THE STEERAGE OF THE LAHN
CHAPTER IV. CONDITIONS IN THE NEAPOLITAN ZONE
CHAPTER V. IN THE ROMAN ZONE
CHAPTER VI. IN THE HEEL AND TOE OF THE BOOT
CHAPTER VII. GUALTIERI-SICAMINO AND THE SQUADRITO FAMILY
CHAPTER VIII. THE SICILIAN COUNTRYSIDE
CHAPTER IX. THE DEPARTURE
CHAPTER X. FROM SICILY TO NAPLES
CHAPTER XI. THROUGH THE CITY OF THIEVES
CHAPTER XII. ROGUERY AND ILLITERACY
CHAPTER XIII. THE EMBARKATION PROCESS
CHAPTER XIV. THE VOYAGE
CHAPTER XV. THE VOYAGE—Continued
CHAPTER XVI. NEARING THE GATE
CHAPTER XVII. WITHIN THE PORTALS OF THE NEW WORLD
CHAPTER XVIII. THROUGH ELLIS ISLAND
CHAPTER XIX. THE DISPERSION
CHAPTER XX. THE STRUGGLES OF THE GUALTIERI BOYS IN NEW YORK
CHAPTER XXI. LEGISLATION AND EVASION
CHAPTER XXII. WHAT TO DO WITH THE IMMIGRANT
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Broughton Brandenburg
The Story of the Experiences of a Disguised American and His Wife Studying the Immigration Question
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An Italian of humble birth who may have prospered in this country and have risen to a position of commercial and political eminence among New Yorkers will cringe unhesitatingly to some worthless scamp who chances to be well born. I have seen this instanced many times and in various ways. Twenty years of residence and fifteen of citizenship in the United States will change the average Italian into a very American sort of person, but I know to a certainty that he will suffer silently at the hands of a countryman of superior birth what he would not submit to for one minute from an American no matter what might be the latter’s station in life. It is certainly a curious fact.
In general it is safe to say that half of the Italians from the better classes who come to America are far more undesirable than any of the lower-class immigrants except that certain class of habitual criminals who are doing so much to get their race despised by honest, clean-handed Americans.
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