04731nam 22007575 450 991082492660332120240405094655.00-8147-6050-30-8147-8849-110.18574/9780814788493(CKB)3710000000244177(EBL)1820926(SSID)ssj0001350057(PQKBManifestationID)11773013(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001350057(PQKBWorkID)11288184(PQKB)10791881(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323973(MiAaPQ)EBC1820926(OCoLC)891147853(MdBmJHUP)muse37366(DE-B1597)547408(DE-B1597)9780814788493(OCoLC)893740350(EXLCZ)99371000000024417720200723h20142014 fy 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrA Great Conspiracy against Our Race Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century /Peter G. Vellon1st ed.New York, NY :New York University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (183 p.)Culture, Labor, History ;5"Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.1-4798-5345-3 0-8147-8848-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. The Italian language press and the creation of an Italian racial identity --2. The Italian language press and Africa --3. Native Americans, Asians, and Italian Americans: constructions of a multilayered racial consciousness --4. The education of Italian Americans in matters of color --5. Defending Italian American civility, asserting whiteness --Epilogue --Notes --Index --About the authorRacial history has always been the thorn in America’s 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. 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. 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 America’s history of immigration and race.Culture, labor, history.Italian AmericansSocial conditions20th centuryItalian AmericansCultural assimilationHistory20th centuryImmigrantsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWhite peopleUnited StatesRace identityHistory20th centuryItalian AmericansRace identityHistory20th centuryItalian American newspapersHistory20th centuryUnited StatesRace relationsHistory20th centuryItalian AmericansSocial conditionsItalian AmericansCultural assimilationHistoryImmigrantsHistoryWhite peopleRace identityHistoryItalian AmericansRace identityHistoryItalian American newspapersHistory071.308951HIS000000SOC031000HIS037070bisacshVellon Peter G.authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1619559DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910824926603321A Great Conspiracy against Our Race3951880UNINA