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dc.contributor.advisor | Bouchier, Nancy | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Lo, Monaco Riccardo | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T16:54:48Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T16:54:48Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2011-09-23 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2011-10 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/6439 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 7256 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 2253479 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11475 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>This study explores the relationship between soccer and Toronto’s Italian immigrants throughout the 1970s to the now-mythical 1982 celebration of the Italian team’s FIFA World Cup victory on Toronto’s <em>Corso Italia</em>. The celebration’s location in a distinctly ethnic neighbourhood is linked to concepts of ‘place’ and ‘identity’ which made it central to the construction of an Italian-Canadian identity during the era of Multiculturalism policies. Toronto’s Italian-Canadians used the victory as a way of recognizing their own worth to society and to proudly and publicly solidify their integration into the Canadian multicultural landscape. Soccer helped them create and maintain a multi-dimensional transnational identity that reinforced the importance of their ethnic community. It also provided them with a visual way to relate to the nation. This study shows that this nationalism transcended traditional gender constraints and transformed this sport victory celebration into a family event, which included males and females alike. Eighteen interviews of Italian-Canadians who lived in and around the Toronto area throughout the 1970s and early 1980s reveal what they remember about the soccer-related events of that time period and how they feel about those memories now. This study also examines various Italian, Italian-Canadian, and English-language Canadian newspapers that covered specific sporting events and celebrations from 1978 to 1983, with a particular focus on the 1982 World Cup. It argues that in this case a collective memory has been created and conditioned by the way the media portrayed the event and how Toronto’s Italian-Canadian cultural community sustained it.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | Italians | en_US |
dc.subject | Toronto | en_US |
dc.subject | ethnicity | en_US |
dc.subject | identity | en_US |
dc.subject | soccer | en_US |
dc.subject | history | en_US |
dc.subject | World Cup | en_US |
dc.subject | multiculturalism | en_US |
dc.subject | History | en_US |
dc.subject | History | en_US |
dc.title | SIAMO NUMBER ONE: TORONTO ITALIANS, SOCCER AND IDENTITY, 1982 | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | History | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
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