Are Italians white? : how race is made in America /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967-, Salerno, Salvatore, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2003.
Temas:
Italian Americans > Social conditions.
Italian Americans > Race identity.
Américains d'origine italienne > Conditions sociales.
Américains d'origine italienne > Identité ethnique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Race relations.
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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