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Italian American : the racializing of an ethnic identity /

When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A.J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black. The first study of its kin...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Richards, David A. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Revolutionary Constitutionalism
  • 3. The Promise and Betrayal of Italian Revolutionary Constitutionalism: The Southern Italian Emigration
  • 4. American Liberal Nationalism and the Italian Emigration
  • 5. Multicultural Identity and Human Rights
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author