Italian American : : The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity / / David A.J. Richards.

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 ki...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1999]
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Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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