White on arrival:italians, race, color, & power in chicago, 1890-45
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195178029
Date de publication :
28 oct. 2004
Dimensions :
23,3 x 15,6 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
417 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.