Monday, November 27, 2017

Observation of a (Sicilian) doctoral student on my family biography...

...when I told her my father's immigration story, the ethnic history of my mom's family, etc.:

"How complicated."

She then said that she always thinks that whenever she hears American biographies, because with her own family, everyone was always from Sicily on both sides.

She said, too, that everyone in her family wasn't very educated until very recently, and that the older women in her family couldn't even sign their own names.

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