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Are Italians white? : how race is made in America / edited by Jennifer Guglielmo & Salvatore Salerno.

Contributor(s): Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967- | Salerno, Salvatore, 1949-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2003Description: xiii, 328 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415934516; 9780415934510Subject(s): Italian Americans -- Social conditions | Italian Americans -- Race identity | United States -- Race relationsDDC classification: 305.851073 LOC classification: E184.I8 | A74 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : White lies, dark truths / Jennifer Guglielmo -- Color: white / complexion: dark / Louise DeSalvo -- "No color barrier" : Italians, race, and power in the United States / Thomas A. Guglielmo -- Race, nation, hyphen : Italian-Americans and American multiculturalism in comparative perspective / Donna R. Gabaccia -- Walking the color line : Italian immigrants in rural Louisiana, 1880-1910 / Vincenza Scarpaci -- Making the Italian other : Blacks, whites, and the inbetween in the 1895 Spring Valley, Illinois, race riot / Caroline Waldron Merithew -- "It is providential that there are foreigners here" : whiteness and masculinity in the making of Italian American syndicalist identity / Michael Miller Topp -- I delitti della razza bianca (crimes of the white race) : Italian anarchists' racial discourse as crime / Salvatore Salerno -- Surrealist, anarchist, afrocentrist : Philip Lamantia before and after the "Beat generation" / Franklin Rosemont -- The front lines : hip-hop, life, and the death of racism / Manifest -- When Frank Sinatra came to Italian Harlem : the 1945 "race riot" at Benjamin Franklin high school / Gerald Meyer -- Frank L. Rizzo and the whitening of Italian Americans in Philadelphia / Stefano Luconi -- "Italians against racism" : the murder of Yusuf Hawkins (R.I.P.) and my march on Bensonhurst / Joseph Sciorra -- Sangu du sangu meu : growing up Black and Italian in a time of white flight / Kym Ragusa -- Figuring race / Edvige Giunta -- Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito : life in the borderlands / John Gennari -- Italiani/Africani / Ronnie Mae Painter and Rosette Capotorto -- Afterword : Du Bois, race, and Italian Americans / David R. Roediger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : White lies, dark truths / Jennifer Guglielmo -- Color: white / complexion: dark / Louise DeSalvo -- "No color barrier" : Italians, race, and power in the United States / Thomas A. Guglielmo -- Race, nation, hyphen : Italian-Americans and American multiculturalism in comparative perspective / Donna R. Gabaccia -- Walking the color line : Italian immigrants in rural Louisiana, 1880-1910 / Vincenza Scarpaci -- Making the Italian other : Blacks, whites, and the inbetween in the 1895 Spring Valley, Illinois, race riot / Caroline Waldron Merithew -- "It is providential that there are foreigners here" : whiteness and masculinity in the making of Italian American syndicalist identity / Michael Miller Topp -- I delitti della razza bianca (crimes of the white race) : Italian anarchists' racial discourse as crime / Salvatore Salerno -- Surrealist, anarchist, afrocentrist : Philip Lamantia before and after the "Beat generation" / Franklin Rosemont -- The front lines : hip-hop, life, and the death of racism / Manifest -- When Frank Sinatra came to Italian Harlem : the 1945 "race riot" at Benjamin Franklin high school / Gerald Meyer -- Frank L. Rizzo and the whitening of Italian Americans in Philadelphia / Stefano Luconi -- "Italians against racism" : the murder of Yusuf Hawkins (R.I.P.) and my march on Bensonhurst / Joseph Sciorra -- Sangu du sangu meu : growing up Black and Italian in a time of white flight / Kym Ragusa -- Figuring race / Edvige Giunta -- Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito : life in the borderlands / John Gennari -- Italiani/Africani / Ronnie Mae Painter and Rosette Capotorto -- Afterword : Du Bois, race, and Italian Americans / David R. Roediger.

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