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A Great Conspiracy against Our Race

- Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century

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In A Great Conspiracy against Our Race, Peter Vellon explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and ¿swarthy¿ race, assimilated into dominant white culture through the influential national and radical Italian language press in New York City. Racial history has always been the thorn in Americäs side, with a swath of injustices¿slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills¿perpetrated against black people. This very history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in this country. Many of the European immigrant groups now considered white also had to struggle with their own racial identities. Examining the press as a cultural production of the Italian immigrant community, this book investigates how this immigrant press constructed race, class, and identity from 1886 through 1920. Their frequent coverage of racially charged events of the time, as well as other topics such as capitalism and religion, reveals how these papers constructed a racial identity as Italian, American, and white. A Great Conspiracy against Our Race vividly illustrates how the immigrant press was a site where socially constructed categories of race, color, civilization, and identity were reworked, created, contested, and negotiated. Vellon also uncovers how Italian immigrants filtered societal pressures and redefined the parameters of whiteness, constructing their own identity. This work is an important contribution to not only Italian American history, but Americäs history of immigration and race.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781479853458
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 192
  • Udgivet:
  • 1. januar 2017
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x229x15 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 286 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: 8-11 hverdage
Forventet levering: 7. december 2024

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In A Great Conspiracy against Our Race, Peter Vellon explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and ¿swarthy¿ race, assimilated into dominant white culture through the influential national and radical Italian language press in New York City.
Racial history has always been the thorn in Americäs side, with a swath of injustices¿slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills¿perpetrated against black people. This very history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in this country. Many of the European immigrant groups now considered white also had to struggle with their own racial identities.
Examining the press as a cultural production of the Italian immigrant community, this book investigates how this immigrant press constructed race, class, and identity from 1886 through 1920. Their frequent coverage of racially charged events of the time, as well as other topics such as capitalism and religion, reveals how these papers constructed a racial identity as Italian, American, and white.
A Great Conspiracy against Our Race vividly illustrates how the immigrant press was a site where socially constructed categories of race, color, civilization, and identity were reworked, created, contested, and negotiated. Vellon also uncovers how Italian immigrants filtered societal pressures and redefined the parameters of whiteness, constructing their own identity. This work is an important contribution to not only Italian American history, but Americäs history of immigration and race.

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