A Great Conspiracy Against Our Race: Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century

by Peter G Vellon and Peter G. Vellon

Book Overview

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 always been the thorn in America's side, with a swath of injustices--slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills--perpetrated against black people. This very...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479853453
• ISBN13: 9781479853458
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"