Description
This dazzling collection of original essays from some of the country's leading thinkers asks the rather intriguing question - Are Italians White? Each piece carefully explores how, when and why whiteness became important to Italian Americans, and the significance of gender, class and nation to racial identity.
Author: Jennifer Guglielmo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/14/2003
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.02w x 0.74d
ISBN13: 9780415934510
ISBN10: 0415934516
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Social Science | Discrimination
About the Author
Jennifer Guglielmo is Assistant Professor of History at Smith College. Salvatore Salerno is an independent scholar who has taught at University of Massachusetts at Boston, California State University at Sacramento, and Macalester College. David Roediger (afterword) is the Kendrick Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois and the author of many books, including Wagesof Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American WorkingClass.
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