Are Italians White?: How Race is Made in America

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Jennifer Guglielmo, Salvatore Salerno
Routledge, 12.11.2012 - 344 Seiten

This dazzling collection of original essays from some of the country's leading thinkers asks the rather 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.

 

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White Lies Dark Truths
1
Part I Learning the US Color Line
15
Part II Radicalism and Race
77
Part IIIWhitenessViolenceand the Urban Crisis
159
Part IVToward A Black Italian Imaginary
211
Du Bois Race and Italian Americans
259
Notes
265
Contributors
315
Index
319
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Autoren-Profil (2012)

Jennifer Guglielmo is Assistant Professor of History at Smith College. Salvatore Salerno is an independent scholar who has taught at University of Massachusetts at Boston, California State University at Sacramento, and Macalester College. David Roediger (afterword) is the Kendrick Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois and the author of many books, including Wagesof Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American WorkingClass.

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