Are Italians White? How Race Is Made in America

Name: Are Italians White? How Race Is Made in America
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ISBN: 9780415934510

ISBN-10: 0415934516

ISBN-13: 9780415934510

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jennifer Guglielmo, Salvatore Salerno

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This collection of original essays from some of America's leading thinkers asks the intriguing question, 'Are Italians white?' Each piece carefully explores how, when and why whiteness became important to Italian Americans, and the significance of gender, class and nation to racial identity.

Book details

List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/14/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Jennifer Gugliemo is assistant professor of history at Smith College. She is coeditor of <i>Are Italians White?: How Race Is Made in America</i>.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: White Lies, Dark Truths




Learning the U.S. Color Line



Color: White/Complexion: Dark




"No Color Barrier": Italians, Race, and Power in the United States




Race, Nation, Hyphen: Italian-Americans and American Multiculturalism in Comparative Perspective




Walking the Color Line: Italian Immigrants in Rural Louisiana, 1880-1910




Radicalism and Race



Making the Italian Other: Blacks, Whites, and the Inbetween in the 1895 Spring Valley, Illinois, Race Riot




"It is Providential That There Are Foreigners Here": Whiteness and Masculinity in the Making of Italian American Syndicalist Identity




I Delitti della Razza Bianca (Crimes of the White Race): Italian Anarchists' Racial Discourse as Crime




Surrealist, Anarchist, Afrocentrist: Philip Lamantia Before and After the "Beat Generation"




The Front lines: Hip-Hop, Life, and the Death of Racism




Whiteness, Violence, and the Urban Crisis



When Frank Sinatra Came to Italian Harlem: The 1945 "Race Riot" at Benjamin Franklin High School




Frank L. Rizzo and the Whitening of Italian Americans in Philadelphia




"Italians Against Racism": The Murder of Yusuf Hawkins (R.I.P.) and My March on Bensonhurst




Toward A Black Italian Imaginary



Sangu du Sangu Meu: Growing up Black and Italian in a Time of White Flight




Figuring Race




Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito: Life in the Borderlands




Italiani / Africani



Afterword: Du Bois, Race, and Italian Americans



Notes


Contributors


Index