White On Arrival - Italians, Race, Color, And Power In Chicago, 1890-1945

Zusatztext Guglielmo's investigation of racial dynamics in early 20th Century Chicago is a meticulous local study within the framework of the flow of migrants and ideas providing an historical context for the discussion of affirmative action and reparations. Informationen zum Autor Thomas A. Guglielmo is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Zusammenfassung Taking the mass Italian immigration of the late nineteenth century as his starting point and drawing on dozens of oral histories and an array of primary sources in English and Italian, the author focuses on how perceptions of Italians' race and colour were shaped in one of America's great centers of immigration and labor, Chicago.

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• Authors: Thomas A. Guglielmo, Thomas A. (Assistant Professor of American Studies Guglielmo, Guglielmo Thomas A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2004
• EAN: 9780195178029
• ISBN: 978-0-19-517802-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples