A Great Conspiracy against Our Race : : Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century / / Peter G. Vellon.
Racial history has always been the thorn in America’s side, with a swath of injustices-slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills-perpetrated against black people. This very history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in this country. Many of the Europe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture, Labor, History ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Italian language press and the creation of an Italian racial identity
- 2. The Italian language press and Africa
- 3. Native Americans, Asians, and Italian Americans: constructions of a multilayered racial consciousness
- 4. The education of Italian Americans in matters of color
- 5. Defending Italian American civility, asserting whiteness
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- About the author