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Imagining Italians : The Clash of Romance and Race in American Perceptions, 1880-1910.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY Series in Italian/American Culture SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (244 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780791486627
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imagining ItaliansDDC classification:
  • 305.85/1073/09034
LOC classification:
  • E184.I8 -- C654 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- IMAGINING ITALIANS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: Magnificently Miserable Italians and Their Wretched, Princely Italy -- 1. JACOB RIIS: IMMIGRANTS OLD AND NEW, AND THE MAKING OF AMERICANS -- 2. EDWARD STEINER: ALL IS (NOT) RACE? -- 3. HENRY JAMES'S PICTURESQUE PEASANTS: HEROES OF ROMANCE OR MODERN MEN? -- 4. HENRY JAMES'S "FLAGRANT FOREIGNERS": WHOSE COUNTRY IS THIS ANYWAY? -- 5. MARK TWAIN: RACISM, NATIVISM, AND THE TWINNING OF ITALIANNESS -- CONCLUSION: THE FIGHT FOR WHITENESS -- NOTES -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Explores changes in American attitudes toward Italy and Italians during a crucial period of U.S. immigration history.
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Intro -- IMAGINING ITALIANS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: Magnificently Miserable Italians and Their Wretched, Princely Italy -- 1. JACOB RIIS: IMMIGRANTS OLD AND NEW, AND THE MAKING OF AMERICANS -- 2. EDWARD STEINER: ALL IS (NOT) RACE? -- 3. HENRY JAMES'S PICTURESQUE PEASANTS: HEROES OF ROMANCE OR MODERN MEN? -- 4. HENRY JAMES'S "FLAGRANT FOREIGNERS": WHOSE COUNTRY IS THIS ANYWAY? -- 5. MARK TWAIN: RACISM, NATIVISM, AND THE TWINNING OF ITALIANNESS -- CONCLUSION: THE FIGHT FOR WHITENESS -- NOTES -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Explores changes in American attitudes toward Italy and Italians during a crucial period of U.S. immigration history.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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