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.