For additional readings on the Italian Americans see the extensive bibliography in Jerre Mangione and Ben Morreale. La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience. New York: Harper-Collins Publishers. 1992. Another extensive bibliography is found in Luciano J. Iorizzo and Salvatore Mondello. The Italian Americans. Revised Edition. New York: Twayne Publishers. 1980. These two books are general histories of the Italian Americans. Two additional general histories are the following: Alexander DeConde. Half Bitter, Half Sweet. An Excursion into Italian-American History. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1971 and Erik Amfitheatrof. The Children of Columbus: An Informal History of the Italians in the New World. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1973.

An award-winning book on the subject of discrimination against Italian Americans is Thomas A. Guglielmo. White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003.

On Italian East Harlem see Leonard Covello. The Heart Is the Teacher. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1958 and Robert Anthony Orsi. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1985.

For readers of Italian I recommend the following books on Sicilian culture and society:Bonaviri. Fiabe Siciliane. Milano: Oscar Mondadori. 1990.

Andrea Camilleri. Storie di Montalbano. Milano: I Meridiani, Arnoldo Mondadori. 2002.Mack Smith. Storia della Sicilia Medievale e Moderna. Bari: Editori Laterza. 1983.

Luigi Pirandello. Tutto il Teatro in Dialetto. Milano: Tascabili Bompiani. 1994.

Leonardo Sciascia. La Corda Pazza: Scrittori e Cose della Sicilia. Milano: Adelphi Edizioni. 1991.