Italian Americans
Italian Americans (Italian: italoamericani or italo-americani, Italian: [ˌitaloameriˈkaːni]) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry. According to the Italian American Studies Association, the current population is about 18 million, an increase from 16 million in 2010, corresponding to about 5.4% of the total population of the United States. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeast and industrial Midwestern metropolitan areas, with significant communities also residing in many other major U.S. metropolitan areas.[10]
This article is about Italians and their descendants in America. For the 1974 Martin Scorsese documentary film, see Italianamerican.
Between 1820 and 2004, approximately 5.5 million Italians migrated to the United States during the Italian diaspora, in several distinct waves, with the greatest number arriving in the 20th century from Southern Italy. Initially, many Italians (usually single men), so-called "birds of passage", sent remittance back to their families in Italy and, eventually, returned to Italy.
Immigration began to increase during the 1880s, when more than twice as many Italians immigrated than had in the five previous decades combined.[11][12] Continuing from 1880 to 1914, the greatest surge of immigration brought more than 4 million Italians to the United States.[11][12] The largest number of this wave came from Southern Italy, which at that time was largely agricultural and where much of the populace had been impoverished by centuries of foreign rule and heavy tax burdens.[13][14] This period of large-scale immigration ended abruptly with the onset of World War I in 1914 and, except for one year (1922), never fully resumed. Thousands of Italians immigrated despite new quota-based immigration restrictions.
Alpha Phi Delta
American Italian Anti-Defamation League
Columbus Citizens Foundation
Italian American Congressional Delegation
Italian American One Voice Coalition
Italian-American Civil Rights League
Italian-American National Union
Italy–USA Foundation
National Organization of Italian American Women
Order Sons of Italy in America
Unico National
The Columbian Foundation
American Relief for Italy, Inc (ARI)
(Town and village name)
Busti, New York
Sicilian Americans
List of Italian-American neighborhoods
Little Italys in the United States
List of Italian-American actors
List of Italian Americans in sports
Order Sons of Italy in America
Italian-American cuisine
American Mafia
Italian-American Civil Rights League
based in Rome
Italy–USA Foundation
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Italy–United States relations
Italian diaspora
Anti-Italianism
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