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White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945

White on Arrival 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. Full description

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