Another City upon a Hill: A New England Memoir (Portuguese in the Americas Series)
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Document Type
Book
Description
This gripping memoir is both a personal story and a portrait of a distinctive New England place--Fall River, Massachusetts, once the cotton cloth capital of America. Growing up, Joseph Conforti's world was defined by rolling hills, granite mills, and forests of triple-deckers. Conforti, whose mother was Portuguese and whose father was Italian, recounts how he negotiated those identities in a city where ethnic heritage mattered. Paralleling his own account, Conforti shares the story of his family, three generations of Portuguese and Italians who made their way in this once-mighty textile city.
ISBN
978-1933227566
Publication Date
9-3-2013
Publisher
Tagus Press (UMass)
City
Dartmouth (UMass)
Keywords
Memoir, New England history
Disciplines
Regional Sociology
Recommended Citation
Conforti, Joseph A. Another City Upon a Hill: A New England Memoir. Tagus Press, 2013.
