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 105

Epilogue

Notes

Index

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