Are Italians White? : How Race Is Made in America.

By: Guglielmo, JenniferContributor(s): Salerno, SalvatoreMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (343 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781136062346Subject(s): United States - Race relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Are Italians White? : How Race Is Made in AmericaDDC classification: 305.85/1073 LOC classification: E184.I8E184.I8 A7Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- ARE ITALIANS WHITE? HOW RACE IS MADE IN AMERICA -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction:White Lies, Dark Truths -- Part I. Learning the U.S. Color Line -- Chapter 1. Color:White/Complexion: Dark -- Chapter 2. "No Color Barrier": Italians, Race, and Power in the United States -- Chapter 3. Race, Nation, Hyphen: Italian-Americans and American Multiculturalism in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 4. Walking the Color Line: Italian Immigrants in Rural Louisiana, 1880-1910 -- Part II. Radicalism and Race -- Chapter 5. Making the Italian Other: Blacks,Whites, and the Inbetween in the 1895 Spring Valley, Illinois, Race Riot -- Chapter 6. "It is Providential That There Are Foreigners Here": Whiteness and Masculinity in the Making of Italian American Syndicalist Identity -- Chapter 7. I Delitti Della Razza Bianca (Crimes of the White Race): Italian Anarchists' Racial Discourse as Crime -- Chapter 8. Surrealist,Anarchist,Afrocentrist: Philip Lamantia Before and After the "Beat Generation" -- Chapter 9. The Front lines: Hip-Hop, Life, and the Death of Racism -- Part III.Whiteness,Violence,and the Urban Crisis -- Chapter 10. When Frank Sinatra Came to Italian Harlem:The 1945 "Race Riot" at Benjamin Franklin High School -- Chapter 11. Frank L. Rizzo and the Whitening of Italian Americans in Philadelphia -- Chapter 12. "Italians Against Racism":The Murder of Yusuf Hawkins (R.I.P.) and My March on Bensonhurst -- Part IV.Toward A Black Italian Imaginary -- Chapter 13. Sangu Du Sangu Meu: Growing up Black and Italian in a Time of White Flight -- Chapter 14. Figuring Race -- Chapter 15. Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito: Life in the Borderlands -- Chapter 16. Italians / Africani -- Afterword: Du Bois, Race, and Italian Americans -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: 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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Intro -- ARE ITALIANS WHITE? HOW RACE IS MADE IN AMERICA -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction:White Lies, Dark Truths -- Part I. Learning the U.S. Color Line -- Chapter 1. Color:White/Complexion: Dark -- Chapter 2. "No Color Barrier": Italians, Race, and Power in the United States -- Chapter 3. Race, Nation, Hyphen: Italian-Americans and American Multiculturalism in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 4. Walking the Color Line: Italian Immigrants in Rural Louisiana, 1880-1910 -- Part II. Radicalism and Race -- Chapter 5. Making the Italian Other: Blacks,Whites, and the Inbetween in the 1895 Spring Valley, Illinois, Race Riot -- Chapter 6. "It is Providential That There Are Foreigners Here": Whiteness and Masculinity in the Making of Italian American Syndicalist Identity -- Chapter 7. I Delitti Della Razza Bianca (Crimes of the White Race): Italian Anarchists' Racial Discourse as Crime -- Chapter 8. Surrealist,Anarchist,Afrocentrist: Philip Lamantia Before and After the "Beat Generation" -- Chapter 9. The Front lines: Hip-Hop, Life, and the Death of Racism -- Part III.Whiteness,Violence,and the Urban Crisis -- Chapter 10. When Frank Sinatra Came to Italian Harlem:The 1945 "Race Riot" at Benjamin Franklin High School -- Chapter 11. Frank L. Rizzo and the Whitening of Italian Americans in Philadelphia -- Chapter 12. "Italians Against Racism":The Murder of Yusuf Hawkins (R.I.P.) and My March on Bensonhurst -- Part IV.Toward A Black Italian Imaginary -- Chapter 13. Sangu Du Sangu Meu: Growing up Black and Italian in a Time of White Flight -- Chapter 14. Figuring Race -- Chapter 15. Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito: Life in the Borderlands -- Chapter 16. Italians / Africani -- Afterword: Du Bois, Race, and Italian Americans -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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