Author: John Smith KendallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
"Who Killa de Chief?"
Author: John Smith KendallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
United States from the Discovery of the North American Continent Up to the Present Time
Author: Julian HawthornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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The History of the Last Quarter-century in the United States, 1870-1895
Author: Elisha Benjamin AndrewsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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The History of the Last Quarter-century in the United States 1870-1895
Author: AndrewsDixie’s Italians
Author: Jessica Barbata JacksonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807173762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tens of thousands of Southern Italians and Sicilians immigrated to the American Gulf South. Arriving during the Jim Crow era at a time when races were being rigidly categorized, these immigrants occupied a racially ambiguous place in society: they were not considered to be of mixed race, nor were they “people of color” or “white.” In Dixie’s Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South, Jessica Barbata Jackson shows that these Italian and Sicilian newcomers used their undefined status to become racially transient, moving among and between racial groups as both “white southerners” and “people of color” across communal and state-monitored color lines. Dixie’s Italians is the first book-length study of Sicilians and other Italians in the Jim Crow Gulf South. Through case studies involving lynchings, disenfranchisement efforts, attempts to segregate Sicilian schoolchildren, and turn-of-the-century miscegenation disputes, Jackson explores the racial mobility that Italians and Sicilians experienced. Depending on the location and circumstance, Italians in the Gulf South were sometimes viewed as white and sometimes not, occasionally offered access to informal citizenship and in other moments denied it. Jackson expands scholarship on the immigrant experience in the American South and explorations of the gray area within the traditionally black/white narrative. Bridging the previously disconnected fields of immigration history, southern history, and modern Italian history, this groundbreaking study shows how Sicilians and other Italians helped to both disrupt and consolidate the region’s racially binary discourse and profoundly alter the legal and ideological landscape of the Gulf South at the turn of the century.
The 1891 New Orleans Lynchings and U.S.-Italian Relations
Author: Marco RimanelliPublisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
On the centenary of the 1891 New Orleans Crisis and U.S.-Italian war-scare, this authoritative study by Marco Rimanelli and Sheryl L. Postman represents the latest, and most complete and objective socio-politico-literary study of that period. Although long forgotten, this key domestic and diplomatic crisis exposed in a flash of violence all the simmering anti-Italian racial tensions rocking New Orleans and America. Ethnic hostility toward southern Italian immigration and Mafia criminality exploded in New Orleans with the murder of Police Chief D.C. Hennessy and the lynching by a 20,000-strong mob of 11 imprisoned Italians. Far from being spontaneous, the lynching was secretly engineered by Lousiana's establishment in a strategy to exterminate the Mafia, expropriate the rich Italian tropical fruit trade with Central America, and especially, cajole the independent-minded Italians into joining the White Supremacist front, which disenfranchised Louisiana's Blacks in 1898. Nationally, the lynching split Americans between advocates and opposers of popular justice and anti-immigration laws. Even more importantly, the New Orleans Lynchings provoked a major international crisis and war-scare with Italy in 1891-92, while promoting at home the long awaited nationalistic Reunification of North and South against foreign foes. The U.S. government's refusal to pay reparations until 1892 led Italy to break diplomatic relations, while both governments were trapped in a rigid international confrontation by their own domestic political fragility and collapsing electoral support. Finally America's own defenselessness against Italy's navy (The world's third largest) forced the U.S. to build a new modern navy, which first propelled them to victory in the 1898 Spanish-American War, and later on to global Superpowership.
The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History
Author: University of Southwestern Louisiana. Center for Louisiana StudiesPublisher:
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Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Scribner's Magazine
Author: Edward Livermore BurlingamePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Scribner's Magazine
Author: Puck
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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