American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination

idea of being Italian American. Since I abhor the idea of all melting pots, I applaud this revival of localized dialects and traditions. (Emphasis added.) For Vecoli, in other words, an emphasis on Italy’s cultural diversity at the local level is a way of resisting the melting pot ideology. I am suggesting only that a great many Italian Americans in the 1920s and 1930s held this same attitude, which is precisely why they responded to the nativist campaign being waged Italian American Catholicism 85