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.
Temas:
Sicilians.
Italians.
HISTORY / Europe / Italy.
Siciliens > États du Golfe (États-Unis) > Histoire.
Italiens > États du Golfe (États-Unis) > Histoire.
Gulf States > Race relations > History.
Sicilians > Gulf States > History.
Italians > Gulf States > History.
United States > Gulf States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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