Bathtub Madonnas as Media in an Italian American Neighborhood in Transition
Migration, Gentrification, and Meaningful Properties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21747751 |
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| Authors | Regina Marchi (0000-0002-0124-6905, Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-18 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Communication Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1555-1393 • E-ISSN: 1555-1407 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15551393.2020.1862665 |
| OpenAlex | W3135038965 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Based on historical research, visual analysis, photographic documentation, and 31 interviews, this article examines Madonna yard shrines constructed by Italian Americans in the 20th century as vernacular media and considers their role in knowledge production, identity representation, and the transmission of history. It discusses the historic meanings and contexts of these shrines, including their emergence during a time of anti-Italian bigotry, while examining their evolving significance within the changing cultural and socioeconomic contexts of globalization. While previous research on religious yard statuary has analyzed them as expressions of faith and cultural identity within homogeneous communities, this article explores their meanings in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing due to new migration, gentrification, and transformations in the urban real estate market
Aesthetics · Art · Documentation · Economic geography · Economic growth · Gentrification · Geography · Globalization · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Real estate · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Vernacular · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Photography and Visual Culture
Are Italians White?
Distinction
Yard Shrines and Sidewalk Altars of New York's Italian-Americans
Anti-Italianism
Nostalgia critique
Black dagoes? Italian immigrants’ racial status in the United States
A Savage Sorting of Winners and Losers
Italian-American Yard Shrines
Prelates and Peasants
Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life
Introduction
Vernacular Religion and the Search for Method in Religious Folklife
On the Semiotic Mechanism of Culture
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
The Madonna of 115th Street
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
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