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A Great Conspiracy against Our Race: Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century (Culture, Labor, History)

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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. 
 
Racial history has all the time been the thorn in The united states’s side, with a swath of injustices—slavery, lynching, segregation, and plenty of other ills—perpetrated against black people. This very history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in this country. Among the European immigrant groups now thought to be white also had to struggle with their own racial identities. 

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, in addition to 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 once a web 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 the most important contribution not to only Italian American history, but The united states’s history of immigration and race.

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