Abstract
Focusing on the Italian language press in Argentina and Brazil, this article explores the role of the foreign language press in the immigrant process of acculturation. Specifically, the author evaluates La Patria degli Italiani of Buenos Aires and Fanfulla of São Paulo. These two papers, in their respective communities, retained the largest circulation and were generally acknowledged to be the most influential. The author probes the Italian communities in each country, examines the functions of the newspapers and estimates their respective influence.
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