“We Only Done What Any Red-Blooded American Boys Would Do:” The Making of Italian Americans in East New York, 1966

MARIA C. LIZZI is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Albany, SUNY. She is currently working on the final stages of her dissertation, “Fighting for Lawn Madonnas and Fig Trees: When the Italian Americans of New York Became New Ethnics.” Her work has been previously published in the Journal of American Ethnic Studies.