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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967-

Salerno, Salvatore, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian Americans--Social conditions.

Italian Americans.

Italian Americans--Race identity.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 328 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: White Lies, Dark Truths / Jennifer Guglielmo 1

I. Learning the U.S. Color Line

1. Color: White/Complexion: Dark / Louise DeSalvo 17

2. "No Color Barrier": Italians, Race, and Power in the United States / Thomas A. Guglielmo 29

3. Race, Nation, Hyphen: Italian-Americans and American Multiculturalism in Comparative Perspective / Donna R. Gabaccia 44

4. Walking the Color Line: Italian Immigrants in Rural Louisiana, 1880-1910 / Vincenza Scarpaci 60

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 79

6. "It is Providential That There Are Foreigners Here": Whiteness and Masculinity in the Making of Italian American Syndicalist Identity / Michael Miller Topp 98

7. I Delitti della Razza Bianca (Crimes of the White Race): Italian Anarchists' Racial Discourse as Crime / Salvatore Salerno 111

8. Surrealist, Anarchist, Afrocentrist: Philip Lamantia Before and After the "Beat Generation" / Franklin Rosemont 124

9. The Front lines: Hip-Hop, Life, and the Death of Racism / Manifest 144

III. Whiteness, Violence, and the Urban Crisis

10. When Frank Sinatra Came to Italian Harlem: The 1945 "Race Riot" at Benjamin Franklin High School / Gerald Meyer 161

11. Frank L. Rizzo and the Whitening of Italian Americans in Philadelphia / Stefano Luconi 177

12. "Italians Against Racism": The Murder of Yusuf Hawkins (R.I.P.) and My March on Bensonhurst / Joseph Sciorra 192

IV. Toward A Black Italian Imaginary

13. Sangu du Sangu Meu: Growing up Black and Italian in a Time of White Flight / Kym Ragusa 213

14. Figuring Race / Edvige Giunta 224

15. Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito: Life in the Borderlands / John Gennari 234

16. Italiani / Africani / Ronnie Mae Painter, Rosette Capotorto 250

Afterword: Du Bois, Race, and Italian Americans / David R. Roediger 259.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-314) and index.

ISBN:

0415934508

0415934516

OCLC:

51622484