Italian American : : The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity / / David A.J. Richards.

• Übergeordnet: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Richards, David A.J.,
• Ort / Verlag: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1999]; ©1999
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• Beschreibung: 1 online resource

When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black. The first study of its ki...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Revolutionary Constitutionalism
• 3. The Promise and Betrayal of Italian Revolutionary Constitutionalism: The Southern Italian Emigration
• 4. American Liberal Nationalism and the Italian Emigration
• 5. Multicultural Identity and Human Rights
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author