Are Italians White?

Introduction: White Lies, Dark TruthsJennifer GuglielmoI. Learning the U.S. Color Line1. Color: White/ Complexion: DarkLouise DeSalvo2. No Color Barrier: Italians, Race, and Power in the United StatesThomas A. Guglielmo3. Race, Nation, Hyphen: Italian-Americans and American Multiculturalism in Comparative PerspectiveDonna R. Gabaccia4. Walking the Color Line: Italian Immigrants in Rural Louisiana, 1880-1910Vincenza ScarpaciII. Radicalism and Race5. Making the Italian Other: Blacks, Whites, and the Inbetween in the 1895 Spring Valley, Illinois Race RiotCaroline Waldron Merithew 6. It is Providential That There Are Foreigners Here: Whiteness and Masculinity In the Making of Italian American Syndicalist IdentityMichael Miller Topp7. I Delitti della Razza Bianca (Crimes of the White Race): Italian Anarchists' Racial Discourse as CrimeSalvatore Salerno8. Surrealist, Anarchist, Afrocentrist: Philip Lamantia Before and After the Beat GenerationFranklin Rosemont9. The Frontlines: Hip-Hop, Life, and the Death of RacismMark Vesuvio Guglielmo (aka Manifest)III. Whiteness, Violence, and the Urban Crisis10. When Sinatra Came to Italian Harlem: The 1945 Race Riot at Benjamin Franklin High SchoolGerald Meyer11. Frank L. Rizzo and the Whitening of Italian Americans in PhiladelphiaStefano Luconi12. Italians Against Racism: Yusef Hawkins (R.I.P.) and My March on BensonhurstJoseph SciorraIV. A Black Italian Imaginary13. Sangu du Sangu Meu: Growing up Black and Italian in a Time of White FlightKym Ragusa14. Figuring RaceEdvige Giunta15. Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito: Life in the BorderlandsJohn R. Gennari16. Italiani/ AfricaniRonnie Mae Painter and Rosette CapotortoAfterword: DuBois, Race and Italian AmericansDavid RoedigerContributors