Draft:Humbert S. Nelli

Humbert Steven Nelli (January 12, 1920 - November 24, 2021) is a sociologist and author in the United States. He has written on Italian American history as well as organized crime. He won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his book on the history of Italian Americans.

Writings

 * The winning tradition : a history of Kentucky Wildcat basketball, University Press of Kentucky, 1998
 * From immigrants to ethnics : the Italian Americans, Oxford University Press, 1983
 * Italians in Chicago, 1880-1930 : a study in ethnic mobility, Oxford University Press, 1970
 * The role of the "colonial" press in the Italian-American community of Chicago, 1886-1921, 1965
 * Worldcat


 * The Business of Crime; Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States 1981 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/N/H/au5835725.html
 * Review by Nelli