Shouts of 'Forza Italia!' Rang Out Along St. Clair West Each Time Italy won a game in World Cup 1994. But is a soccer tournament all that almost a half-million Italians in Toronto have in common? What does it mean to be Italian in Toronto? Nicholas DeMaria Harney drove around Toronto's Italian neighbourhoods to find out. This book invites us to explore with him the symbols and sites of Italian culture. Ethnic identity, we discover, is a process -- it is constantly being remade and reproduced. Do Canadians look beyond the stereotypes that picture Italians as peasant construction workers, members of organized crime, and soccer fanatics to see the diversity of Italian life in Toronto? Second generation Italian Canadians, educated and engaged with Italy's fashion, sports, and design worlds have new images to confront. In today's global economy, ideas and products arrive rapidly from Italy, as do bureaucrats and politicians cultivating markets among people of Italian heritage and nourishing Italianita, spaces of Italian cultural life.While the familiar greeting 'Eh Paesan!' is commonly used by young Italian Canadians, Harney leaves no doubt that their Italianness and that of their parents is rooted in Toronto. If you and your neighbours are part of the Italian Canadian community, this book is guaranteed to provoke debate.