@article{THESIS,
      recid = {3269},
      author = {Waldmann Katharine Marina},
      title = {Why can’t I eat at Italian restaurants? Agnotologies and  Biopolitics of Italian Food in  Migration 1930-1940},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2021-08},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {Italo American socialists in the 1930s found themselves in  the crossfire of fascist Italy  and Capitalist America,  undesirable on both sides of the Atlantic. Food as  represented in the  Italian Language Newspaper La Stampa  Libera allows a look into the assimilative pressures  faced  by Italo American socialists on both sides. Meat Eating in  particular because of it’s  ideological ties with both  fascism and capitalism, became a point of contested  assimilation, with  the fascist majority of the Italian  American community coming into meat eating with less   resistance and the socialist minority with more resistance.  At least until 1935 when a sudden  change occurs in the  relative assimilation and relative meat consumption of  Italian American  socialists. This sudden change reveals  the biopolitical pressures under which Italian American   socialist where living and its suddenness allows for some  speculation on the reason for the  sudden capitulation to  them. Italian American Socialists, particularly women had  utilized  food to maintain a separate political and ethnic  identity against biopolitical assimilation, their   acceptance of a change in foodways reveals this  capitulation.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3269},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.3269},
}