balls); and cannoli, a Sicilian creation. One tradition has each guest at a St. Joseph's Day table receiving a slice of orange, a bit of fennel and a fava bean, for good luck. Notable people See also List of Italian Americans References Further reading Gabaccia, Donna. From Sicily to Elizabeth Street (State University of New York Press, 1984). Gabaccia, Donna. Militants and Migrants: Rural Sicilians Become American Workers (Rutgers University Press, 1988). Mazzucchelli, Chiara. “Heart of My Race”: Questions of Identity in Sicilian/American Writings (Florida Atlantic University Press, 2007). Raab, Selwyn. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires (St. Martin's Press, 2005_. Rudolph, Laura C. "Sicilian Americans." in Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, edited by Thomas Riggs, (3rd ed., vol. 4, Gale, 2014, pp. 151-163). Online Schiavelli, Vincent. Bruculinu, America: Remembrances of Sicilian-American Brooklyn'' (1998). External links Every culture.com Arba Sicula (A Sicilian American organization) Sicilian American Theater Magna GRECE Ethno-cultural journal for people of Southern-Italian descent European-American society Sicilian American Sicily