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Pages: 344
Authors: Jennifer Guglielmo
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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This dazzling collection of original essays from some of the country's leading thinkers asks the rather intriguing question - Are Italians White? Each piece car
Dixie’s Italians
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Jessica Barbata Jackson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-15 - Publisher: LSU Press

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tens of thousands of Southern Italians and Sicilians immigrated to the American Gulf South. Arriving durin
Working Toward Whiteness
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: David R. Roediger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-08-08 - Publisher: Basic Books

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How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white? David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American h
White on Arrival
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Thomas A. Guglielmo
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-09-30 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Taking the mass Italian immigration of the late 19th century as his starting point and drawing on dozens of oral histories and a diverse array of primary source
Undermining Race
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Phylis Cancilla Martinelli
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-19 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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Undermining Race rewrites the history of race, immigration, and labor in the copper industry in Arizona. The book focuses on the case of Italian immigrants in t