Planning for Public Humanities Program

FAIN: GP-10451-78

Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies (Philadelphia, PA 19106-2314)
Richard N. Juliani (Project Director: January 1978 to present)

To develop a community program which would document information and disseminate knowledge to the general public about the Italian experience in Chicago. Roles of specific institutions (neighborhoods, churches, foreign language and ethnic media, labor unions) which served as mediating forces in the adjustment of Italians to America, will be examined.