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The Two Mafias

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137491374

ISBN: 978-1-349-57848-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 1, 2015

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Introduction

Lupo, Salvatore

Pages: 1 –9

[In Italy, the word “Mafia” has been in use since the 1860s to indicate a phenomenon typical of western Sicily: an ensemble of criminal gangs active in both legitimate and illegitimate business.1 In the United States, the term has labeled the Italian ethnic component of organized crime since the...
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Amid the Great Flood of Migrants

Lupo, Salvatore

Pages: 11 –31

[October 1888, New York City—Two owners of a restaurant that took its name, “La Trinacria,” from the three-legged symbol of Sicily, were charged with the murder of a Sicilian fruit dealer. Inspector Thomas Byrnes, interviewed by the press, said, “The persons were Sicilians, and hail from Palermo,...
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Roaring Twenties

Lupo, Salvatore

Pages: 33 –63

[In the early 1920s, the United States issued a series of prohibitive laws that followed a single principle: the nation intended to Americanize itself. On the one hand, immigration laws aimed to halt the “invasion” from Mediterranean and Eastern European countries on the grounds that people...
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History and Myths of Organized Crime

Lupo, Salvatore

Pages: 65 –91

[In or around 1935, Salvatore Lucania, alias Charlie Luciano, was considered as “the head of the underworld in New York City.”1 He held court at the Waldorf Towers Hotel and, together with his associates from Chicago and other big cities, he monitored his empire, invested his earnings, and raked...
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The New World and the Old World at War

Lupo, Salvatore

Pages: 93 –112

[In 1942, journalist Meyer Berger seemed to take leave of an entire age when he wrote, “Outside of a few of minor labor rackets, New York City has washed up the big shots. The rank and file who survive are insignificant.”1 This was true for the Jewish post-Prohibition top echelons and also, among...
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Looking for and at the Enemy

Lupo, Salvatore

Pages: 113 –134

[The word “Mafia” disappeared from the American public debate between the two world wars, returning to the spotlight around 1950–51, when Democrat senator Estes Kefauver, chairman of the Special Senate Committee on organized crime, used it emphatically. The new political and cultural context...
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The Last Sicilian Wave

Lupo, Salvatore

Pages: 135 –160

[In Montreal, in April-May 1973, four men, all born in Italy, attended a meeting inside the “Reggio” café. We know what they were talking about because Canadian investigators taped the conversation.]
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Mafia’s Ideology

Lupo, Salvatore

Pages: 161 –183

[In the first chapter, I quoted two Sicilian writers, the anthropologist Giuseppe Pitrè and the novelist Luigi Natoli, who in the late 1800s and early 1900s reevaluated the Sicilian contribution to the Italian nation, evoking (inventing, in Hobsbawm/Ranger’s sense) a noble regional tradition. In...

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