ABSTRACT
“Little Italies exist no more.” So say some people. But others say they never really existed. And others, instead, claim that that they still exist; that they have reemerged with more life than ever, although in a different form. (See Color Plates 22 and 23.) Some say that Italian Americans used to be embarrassed by Little Italies. Yet it is also probably true that the continuing existence of Little Italies was reassuring, not only for the Italian immigrants of the first generation who lived there, but also for the successive generations that abandoned them for more comfortable surroundings. Indeed there are people today who are proud to promote their survival.
