| Description |
1 online resource (343 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : White lies, dark truths / Jennifer Guglielmo -- Color:white/complexion:dark / Louise DeSalvo -- "No color barrier" : Italians, race, and power in the United States / Thomas A. Guglielmo -- Race, nation, hyphen : Italian-Americans and American multiculturalism in comparative perspective / Donna R. Gabaccia -- Walking the color line : Italian immigrants in rural Louisiana, 1880-1910 / Vincenza Scarpaci -- Making the Italian other : Blacks, whites, and the inbetween in the 1895 Spring Valley, Illinois, race riot / Caroline Waldron Merithew -- "It is providential that there are foreigners here" : whiteness and masculinity in the making of Italian American syndicalist identity / Michael Miller Topp -- I delitti della razza bianca (crimes of the white race) : Italian anarchists' racial discourse as crime / Salvatore Salerno -- Surrealist, anarchist, afrocentrist : Philip Lamantia before and after the "Beat generation" / Franklin Rosemont -- The front lines : hip-hop, life, and the death of racism / Manifest -- When Frank Sinatra came to Italian Harlem : the 1945 "race riot" at Benjamin Franklin high school / Gerald Meyer -- Frank L. Rizzo and the whitening of Italian Americans in Philadelphia / Stefano Luconi -- "Italians against racism" : the murder of Yusuf Hawkins (R.I.P.) and my march on Bensonhurst / Joseph Sciorra -- Sangu du sangu meu : growing up Black and Italian in a time of white flight / Kym Ragusa -- Figuring race / Edvige Giunta -- Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito : life in the borderlands / John Gennari -- Italiani/Africani / Ronnie Mae Painter and Rosette Capotorto -- Afterword : Du Bois, race, and Italian Americans / David R. Roediger |
| Summary |
This dazzling collection of original essays from some of the country's leading thinkers asks the rather intriguing question - Are Italians White? Each piece carefully explores how, when and why whiteness became important to Italian Americans, and the significance of gender, class and nation to racial identity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Italian Americans -- Social conditions
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Italian Americans -- Race identity
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Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Italian Americans -- Social conditions
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Race relations
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967-
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Salerno, Salvatore, 1949-
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| ISBN |
9781136062346 |
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1136062343 |
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9780203616673 |
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0203616677 |
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