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4 novembre 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.apu.21143
- isbn: 9782848325156
- eisbn: 9782848325217
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
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Robert Casillo, « Chapitre 6 – Le flic / Cops », Artois Presses Université, ID : 10.4000/books.apu.21143
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Italians, and more particularly Italian Americans, have awakened impressions not of extreme foreignness but at least of strangeness in their ways, a strangeness reflected in stereotypes. The Italian American has been seen as clannish, culturally self-encapsulated, aloof from the larger society, and tenacious in clinging to Old World traits. Nor is the stereotype of omerta – the code of silence – unfounded. The Italian American has also been regarded as unparalleled in allegiance to the nuclea...