LEADER 04711nam 22007455 450 001 9910787064303321 005 20230126213411.0 010 $a0-8147-6050-3 010 $a0-8147-8849-1 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814788493 035 $a(CKB)3710000000244177 035 $a(EBL)1820926 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001350057 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11773013 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001350057 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11288184 035 $a(PQKB)10791881 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323973 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1820926 035 $a(OCoLC)891147853 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37366 035 $a(DE-B1597)547408 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814788493 035 $a(OCoLC)893740350 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000244177 100 $a20200723h20142014 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA Great Conspiracy against Our Race $eItalian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century /$fPeter G. Vellon 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (183 p.) 225 0 $aCulture, Labor, History ;$v5 300 $a"Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. 311 0 $a1-4798-5345-3 311 0 $a0-8147-8848-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Italian language press and the creation of an Italian racial identity --$t2. The Italian language press and Africa --$t3. Native Americans, Asians, and Italian Americans: constructions of a multilayered racial consciousness --$t4. The education of Italian Americans in matters of color --$t5. Defending Italian American civility, asserting whiteness --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAbout the author 330 $aRacial history has always been the thorn in America?s side, with a swath of injustices?slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills?perpetrated against black people. This very history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in this country. Many of the European immigrant groups now considered white also had to struggle with their own racial identities. In A Great Conspiracy against Our Race, Peter Vellon explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and ?swarthy? race, assimilated into dominant white culture through the influential national and radical Italian language press in New York City. Examining the press as a cultural production of the Italian immigrant community, this book investigates how this immigrant press constructed race, class, and identity from 1886 through 1920. Their frequent coverage of racially charged events of the time, as well as other topics such as capitalism and religion, reveals how these papers constructed a racial identity as Italian, American, and white. A Great Conspiracy against Our Race vividly illustrates how the immigrant press was a site where socially constructed categories of race, color, civilization, and identity were reworked, created, contested, and negotiated. Vellon also uncovers how Italian immigrants filtered societal pressures and redefined the parameters of whiteness, constructing their own identity. This work is an important contribution to not only Italian American history, but America?s history of immigration and race. 410 0$aCulture, labor, history. 606 $aItalian Americans$xSocial conditions$y20th century 606 $aItalian Americans$xCultural assimilation$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWhite people$zUnited States$xRace identity$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aItalian Americans$xRace identity$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aItalian American newspapers$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aItalian Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aItalian Americans$xCultural assimilation$xHistory 615 0$aImmigrants$xHistory 615 0$aWhite people$xRace identity$xHistory 615 0$aItalian Americans$xRace identity$xHistory 615 0$aItalian American newspapers$xHistory 676 $a071.308951 686 $aHIS000000$aSOC031000$aHIS037070$2bisacsh 700 $aVellon$b Peter G.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01494396 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787064303321 996 $aA Great Conspiracy against Our Race$93717867 997 $aUNINA