Title Imagining Italians : the clash of romance and race in American perceptions, 1880-1910 / Joseph P. Cosco.

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Description	xi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series	SUNY series in Italian/American culture
	SUNY series in Italian/American culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-226) and index.
Contents	Introduction: Magnificently Miserable Italians and Their Wretched, Princely Italy -- Jacob Riis: Immigrants Old and New, and the Making of Americans -- Edward Steiner: All Is (Not) Race? -- Henry James's Picturesque Peasants: Heroes of Romance or Modern Men? -- Henry James's "Flagrant Foreigners": Whose Country Is This Anyway? -- Mark Twain: Racism, Nativism, and the Twinning of Italianness -- Conclusion: The Fight for Whiteness.
Subject	Italian Americans -- Public opinion.
	Immigrants -- United States -- Public opinion.
	Italian Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Italian Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
	Public opinion -- United States.
	Italian Americans in literature.
	United States -- Ethnic relations.
	Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
	Immigrants -- Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst00967767
	Immigrants -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00967782
	Italian Americans in literature. (OCoLC)fst00980448
	Italian Americans -- Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst00980438
	Italian Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00980443
	Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst01082785
	Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Soziale Situation.
	Öffentliche Meinung.
	Italiener.
	United States.
Chronological Term	1800-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	0791457613 (alk. paper)
	9780791457610 (alk. paper)
	0791457621 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
	9780791457627 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

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