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Dixie's Italians : Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South /

"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tens of thousands of Southern Italians and Sicilians immigrated to the American Gulf South. Arriving during the Jim Crow era at a time when races were being rigidly categorized, these immigrants occupied a racially ambiguous place in societ...

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Autor principal: Jackson, Jessica Barbata (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a From "proper citizens" to "alien electors" : reconsidering the experience of Sicilians in Louisiana before and after the lynchings -- The lynchings of Italians in Louisiana and Mississippi (1880s-1910) -- "Electoral freaks and monstrosities" in Louisiana's disenfranchisement debates (1896-1898) -- Segregating Italians, Sicilians, and schools in turn-of-the-century Mississippi -- Legislating miscegenation, marriages, whiteness, and Italians in Louisiana and Alabama -- Epilogue: Italian citizenship and immigration legislation in the Gulf South to 1924 and beyond. 
520 |a "In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tens of thousands of Southern Italians and Sicilians immigrated to the American Gulf South. Arriving during the Jim Crow era at a time when races were being rigidly categorized, these immigrants occupied a racially ambiguous place in society: they were not considered to be of mixed race, nor were they "people of color" or "white." In "Dixie's Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South," Jessica Barbata Jackson shows that these Italian and Sicilian newcomers used their undefined status to become racially transient, moving among and between racial groups as both "white southerners" and "people of color" across communal and state-monitored color lines. "Dixie's Italians" is the first book-length study of Sicilians and other Italians in the Jim Crow Gulf South. Through case studies involving lynchings, disenfranchisement efforts, attempts to segregate Sicilian schoolchildren, and turn-of-the-century miscegenation disputes, Jackson explores the racial mobility that Italians and Sicilians experienced. Depending on the location and circumstance, Italians in the Gulf South were sometimes viewed as white and sometimes not, occasionally offered access to informal citizenship and in other moments denied it. Jackson expands scholarship on the immigrant experience in the American South and explorations of the gray area within the traditionally black/white narrative. Bridging the previously disconnected fields of immigration history, southern history, and modern Italian history, this groundbreaking study shows how Sicilians and other Italians helped to both disrupt and consolidate the region's racially binary discourse and profoundly alter the legal and ideological landscape of the Gulf South at the turn of the century"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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