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Author:   Jennifer Guglielmo ,  Salvatore Salerno ,  Jennifer Gugliemo
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780415934510

ISBN 10:   0415934516
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   14 August 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements Introduction: White Lies, Dark Truths Jennifer Guglielmo I. Learning the U.S. Color Line 1. Color: White/ Complexion: Dark Louise DeSalvo 2. ""No Color Barrier"": Italians, Race, and Power in the United States Thomas A. Guglielmo 3. Race, Nation, Hyphen: Italian-Americans and American Multiculturalism in Comparative Perspective Donna R. Gabaccia 4. Walking the Color Line: Italian Immigrants in Rural Louisiana, 1880-1910 Vincenza Scarpaci II. Radicalism and Race 5. Making the Italian Other: Blacks, Whites, and the Inbetween in the 1895 Spring Valley, Illinois Race Riot Caroline Waldron Merithew 6. ""It is Providential That There Are Foreigners Here"": Whiteness and Masculinity In the Making of Italian American Syndicalist Identity Michael Miller Topp 7. ""I Delitti della Razza Bianca"" (The Crimes of the White Race): Italian Immigrant Anarchists' Racial Discourse as Crime Salvatore Salerno 8. Surrealist, Anarchist, Afrocentrist: Philip Lamantia Before and After the ""Beat Generation"" Franklin Rosemont 9. The Frontlines: Hip-Hop, Life, and the Death of Racism Manifest III. Whiteness, Violence, and the Urban Crisis 10. When Sinatra Came to Italian Harlem: The 1945 ""Race Riot"" at Benjamin Franklin High School Gerald Meyer 11. Frank L. Rizzo and the Whitening of Italian Americans in Philadelphia Stefano Luconi 12. ""Italians Against Racism"": Yusef Hawkins (R.I.P.) and My March on Bensonhurst Joseph Sciorra IV. Toward a Black Italian Imaginary 13. Sangu du Sangu Meu: Growing up Black and Italian in a Time of White Flight Kym Ragusa 14. Figuring Race Edvige Giunta 15. Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Exposito: Life in the Borderlands John R. Gennari 16. Italiani/ Africani Ronnie Mae Painter and Rosette Capotorto Afterword: DuBois, Race, and Italian Americans Davod Roediger Notes Contributors Index"

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This book cuts to the heart of the similarities and the differences between Italian Americans and African Americans, which historically has been a volatile mix....I applaud this insightful scrutiny. <br>-Spike Lee <br> An outstanding collection... an all-around look at a group of people who have made a deep mark on, and been deeply marked by, the U.S. experience. <br>-Noel Ignatiev, author of How the Irish Became White <br> Are Italians White? works from a strong antiracist premise and follows the thread of progressive, activist Italian-American history into the present. The essays lay out a careful, nuanced account of paesani (and Afro-paesani) lives in a multiracial, regionally diverse America. Bravo!. <br>-Micaela di Leonardo, author of Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity <br> Reminds us what the study of whiteness was supposed to yield in the first place: the ultimate dismantling of racism. These thoughtful essays ought to be mandatory reading for anti-racists everywhere. <br>-Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination <br> This exciting collection will forever change the way we think of the words 'Italian American.' Clearly provoked by the series of tragic incidents of racist violence in Italian American communities in the 1980s and 1990s, Are Italians White? is great social and cultural history. <br>-Robert A. Orsi, author of The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem <br>

Author Information

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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