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Author Richards, David A. J.

Title Italian American : the racializing of an ethnic identity / David A.J. Richards.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [1999]
©1999

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.851 R514I    Check Shelf
Description xi, 273 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Revolutionary Constitutionalism -- The Six Ingredients of American Revolutionary Constitutionalism -- The Civil War Amendments as an Expression of American Revolutionary Constitutionalism -- French and American Revolutionary and Constitutional Thought Compared -- Popular Sovereignty in French Constitutionalism -- Rights Skepticism and the Positivistic Challenge to German Constitutionalism -- Summary and Concluding Remarks -- 3. The Promise and Betrayal of Italian Revolutionary Constitutionalism: The Southern Italian Emigration -- The Risorgimento as Revolutionary Constitutionalism -- American, French, and Italian Revolutionary and Constitutional Thought Compared -- The Legitimation Crisis of Italian Constitutionalism: The Emigration from Southern Italy -- 4. American Liberal Nationalism and the Italian Emigration -- Racism as a Constitutional Evil -- The Rationalization of Structural Injustice -- The Southern Italian Emigration and American Racism, 1890-1920 -- Italian American Identity and American Racism -- 5. Multicultural Identity and Human Rights.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-257) and index.
Subject Italian Americans -- Cultural assimilation.
Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Immigrants -- United States -- Cultural assimilation.
Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Constitutional history -- United States.
Constitutional history -- Italy.
Constitutional history -- Europe.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Italy, Southern -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
ISBN 0814775209 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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