Cover; A GREAT CONSPIRACY AGAINST OUR RACE; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Italian Language Press and the Creation of an Italian Racial Identity; 2. The Italian Language Press and Africa; 3. Native Americans, Asians, and Italian Americans: Constructions of a Multilayered Racial Consciousness; 4. The Education of Italian Americans in Matters of Color; 5. Defending Italian American Civility, Asserting Whiteness; Epilogue; Notes; Index; About the Author
Summary
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 history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in this country. Many of the European immigrant groups now considered white have also had to struggle with their own racial consciousness. 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 nati
