Fraser M Ottanelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1450673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fraser M Ottanelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fraser M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ottanelli |
| SIGNATURE | OTTANELLI F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“Mussolini's Column”: Fascist Memorials and the Politics of Italian American Identity in Chicago
Eighty years after Benito Mussolini and his regime declared war on the United States, several Italian Fascist memorials still dot the Chicago landscape. These memorials are the name of a major thoroughfare and a plaque at the base of a Columbus statue in Grant Park honoring one of il Duce's closest associates, Italo Balbo, along with an ancient Roman column. Donated by Mussolini to Chicago in July 1934 to commemorate the first anniversary of the …
D anielle B attisti . Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945–1965
The title of Danielle Battisti’s book Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945–1965 mirrors that of the report of a special commission established to examine federal policies on immigration and to recommend reforms by President Truman at the end of his time in office. In the report, the commission advocated that the 1924 National Origins Act’s restrictive quota system—which promoted a hierarchy of distinctions based o…
Hidden Out in the Open: Spanish Migration to the United States, 1875-1930
Spanish migration dates back to early colonization. This long diasporic history, however, has traditionally favored the experiences of missionaries and conquistadors over those of wage workers. The essays in this collection address this omission and provide the first comprehensive English-language study of the hundreds of thousands of Spaniards who left their birthplace and journeyed to the United States and its territories mainly in the quarter …
Militants and Migrants: A New Model for the Study of International Labor Activism, Nation-building, and Identity
Research Article| October 01 2017 Militants and Migrants: A New Model for the Study of International Labor Activism, Nation-building, and Identity Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli is Professor of History at the University of South Florida. His research concentrates on twentieth-century history with a focus on radical movements, migration, and ethnic history. He has authored and co-authored several books along with many articles …
The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War
In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army, slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins. News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government, with the complicity of Britain, and its significance in the subsequent progress of that conflict was misunderstood. Drawing on archival sources on both sides of the Atlantic and interviews with …
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
On March 25, 2016, in the New York Times op-ed piece “Salute to a Communist,” Arizona senator John McCain wrote to honor the recently deceased Del Berg, the last of the 2,800 U.S. volunteers who had crossed the Atlantic Ocean to fight fascism in Spain eighty years earlier. Berg had been part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, joining 35,000 other volunteers from fifty other countries to defend the Spanish Republic agains…
The Asaba massacre and the Nigerian civil war: Reclaiming Hidden History
This article explores the consequences of a massacre of civilians in Asaba, a town on the west bank of the river Niger, during the early stages of the Nigerian civil war. While ethnically Igbo, Asaba was not part of the Igbo-dominated Biafra, remaining part of the ethnically diverse midwest region. In the international memory of the war, the midwest action, which claimed several thousand lives, has been eclipsed by the catastrophic events east of…
Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880 – 1945
Book Review| March 01 2012 Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880 – 1945 Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880 – 1945Guglielmo, Jennifer Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010 416 pp., $39.95 (cloth) Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (1): 147–149. https://doi.or…
The History and Legacy of the Asaba, Nigeria, Massacres
In early October 1967, four months into the Nigerian Civil War, federal troops massacred hundreds in Asaba, a town in southeast Nigeria on the west bank of the Niger. While ethnically Igbo, Asaba was not part of Igbo-dominated Biafra. Through the reconstruction of this event, the article fills a significant gap in the historical record and contributes to the discussion on the impact of traumatic memory at the local and national levels. It also su…
Anti-Fascism and the Shaping of National and Ethnic Identity: Italian American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Research Article| October 01 2007 Anti-Fascism and the Shaping of National and Ethnic Identity: Italian American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 27 (1): 9–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543253 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Fraser Ottanelli; Ant…
L'ombra lunga del fascio: Canali di propaganda fascita per gli " italiani d'America" (The long shadow of fascism: Channels of fascist propaganda for "Italian Americans")
Writing on the eve of Pearl Harbor, the exiled Italian historian Gaetano Salvemini explained the widespread support of Italian Americans for the Fascist regime during the 1920s and 1930s as a reaction to the discrimination they suffered in U.S. society. Because they were looked down on as inferior “dagoes” and “wops” many Italian Americans, he wrote, embraced an idealized image of a modern, imperial, and feared “new Italy” that provided them with…
Laboring Across National Borders: Class, Gender, and Militancy in the Proletarian Mass Migrations
A decade-long project on the migration of Italian laborers around the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries points to the methodological challenges, theoretical debates, and some of the rewards of transnational analysis of class, ethnicity, and gender in the making of modern national states. Analyses of internationally mobile laborers historicize current transnational studies, problematize the historiography of national groups, and …
"La "Diplomazia parallela: Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli Italo-Americani ("Parallel Diplomacy": The Fascist Regime and the Political Mobilization of Italian Americans)
Journal Article La “Diplomaziaparallela”: Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli Italo-Americani (“Parallel diplomacy”: The Fascist regime and the political mobilization of Italian Americans). By Stefano Luconi. (Milan: Franco-Angeli, 2000. 157 pp. Paper, Lit 30,000, ISBN 88-464-2179-5.) In Italian Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Earl Browder: The Failure of American Communism
Journal Article Earl Brow der: The Failure of American Communism. By James G. Ryan. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. xvi, 332 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8173-0843-1.) Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1557–1558, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568199 Publi…
Diaspora or International Proletariat: Italian Labor, Labor Migration, and the Making of Multiethnic States, 1815-1939
Diaspora 6:1 1997 Diaspora or International Proletariat? Italian Labor, Labor Migration, and the Making of Multiethnic States, 1815-1939 Donna R. Gabaccia University of North Carolina at Charlotte Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida We offer a transnational and comparative analysis of the "nationalization " of foreign-born workers in western nation states of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.1 An analysis of this complex historical …
Diaspora or International Proletariat? Italian Labor, Labor Migration, and the Making of Multiethnic States, 1815-1939
We offer a transnational and comparative analysis of the "nationalization" of foreign-born workers in western nation states of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An analysis of this complex historical moment is an important foundation for assessing present-day fears of the imminent collapse of nation states. Canadians and Italians wrestling with demands for regional autonomy; German and French voters opting for a "fortress Europe" united aga…
All in the Family
New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism
Journal Article New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U. S. Communism. Ed. by Michael E. Brown, Randy Martin, Frank Rosengarten, and George Snedeker. (New York: Monthly Review, 1993. 330 pp. Cloth, $38.00, ISBN 0-85345-851-0. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-85345-852-9.) Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American H…
Indifferent Socialism: Italian Immigrants and the Socialist Party in the Early Nineteen Hundreds
Journal Article Il Socialismo Indifferente: Immigrati Italiani e Socialist Party negli Stati Uniti del Primo Novecento (Indifferent Socialism: Italian Immigrants and the Socialist Party in the Early Nineteen Hundreds). By Elisabetta Vezzosi. (Rome: Lavoro, 1991. xviii + 265 pp. Paper, Lit 35.000, ISBN 88-7910-597-3.) In Italian Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida, Tampa Search for other works by this author on…
The Communist Party of the United States from the Depression to World War II
The Communist Party of the United States: From the Depression to World War II.
The New History of American Communism Revisited
The Communist Party of the United States: From the Great Depression to World War II
Journal Article The Communist Party of the United States: From the Great Depression to World War II. By Fraser M. Ottanelli. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. xii + 307 pp. Cloth, $39.00, ISBN 0-8135-1512-9; paper, $14.00, ISBN 0-8135-1613-7.) Get access The Communist Party of the United States: From the Great Depression to World War II. By Ottanelli Fraser M.. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. xii + 307 pp. Cloth, $39…
Love in the Cold War
Journal Article Love in the Cold War. Prod. by David Duggan and Eric Stange. Windfall Films, 1992. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1288–1289, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080979 Published: 01 December …
An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934
Journal Article An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932–1934. Ed. by Michael Gelb. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. x + 363 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-520-07134-4.) Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida, Tampa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 711, https://doi.org…
The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War
In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army, slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins. News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government, with the complicity of Britain, and its significance in the subsequent progress of that conflict was misunderstood. Drawing on archival sources on both sides of the Atlantic and interviews with …
The History and Legacy of the Asaba, Nigeria, Massacres
In early October 1967, four months into the Nigerian Civil War, federal troops massacred hundreds in Asaba, a town in southeast Nigeria on the west bank of the Niger. While ethnically Igbo, Asaba was not part of Igbo-dominated Biafra. Through the reconstruction of this event, the article fills a significant gap in the historical record and contributes to the discussion on the impact of traumatic memory at the local and national levels. It also su…
Diaspora or International Proletariat: Italian Labor, Labor Migration, and the Making of Multiethnic States, 1815-1939
Diaspora 6:1 1997 Diaspora or International Proletariat? Italian Labor, Labor Migration, and the Making of Multiethnic States, 1815-1939 Donna R. Gabaccia University of North Carolina at Charlotte Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida We offer a transnational and comparative analysis of the "nationalization " of foreign-born workers in western nation states of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.1 An analysis of this complex historical …
Dorothy Healey Remembers: A Life in the American Communist Party
Journal Article Dorothy Healey Remembers: A Life in the American Communist Party. By Dorothy Healey and Maurice Isserman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. viii + 263 pp. $22.95.) Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida, Tampa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 727–728, https://doi.org/10.2307/20796…
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
On March 25, 2016, in the New York Times op-ed piece “Salute to a Communist,” Arizona senator John McCain wrote to honor the recently deceased Del Berg, the last of the 2,800 U.S. volunteers who had crossed the Atlantic Ocean to fight fascism in Spain eighty years earlier. Berg had been part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, joining 35,000 other volunteers from fifty other countries to defend the Spanish Republic agains…
Anti-Fascism and the Shaping of National and Ethnic Identity: Italian American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Research Article| October 01 2007 Anti-Fascism and the Shaping of National and Ethnic Identity: Italian American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 27 (1): 9–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543253 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Fraser Ottanelli; Ant…
Laboring Across National Borders: Class, Gender, and Militancy in the Proletarian Mass Migrations
A decade-long project on the migration of Italian laborers around the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries points to the methodological challenges, theoretical debates, and some of the rewards of transnational analysis of class, ethnicity, and gender in the making of modern national states. Analyses of internationally mobile laborers historicize current transnational studies, problematize the historiography of national groups, and …
Militants and Migrants: A New Model for the Study of International Labor Activism, Nation-building, and Identity
Research Article| October 01 2017 Militants and Migrants: A New Model for the Study of International Labor Activism, Nation-building, and Identity Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli is Professor of History at the University of South Florida. His research concentrates on twentieth-century history with a focus on radical movements, migration, and ethnic history. He has authored and co-authored several books along with many articles …
The Asaba massacre and the Nigerian civil war: Reclaiming Hidden History
This article explores the consequences of a massacre of civilians in Asaba, a town on the west bank of the river Niger, during the early stages of the Nigerian civil war. While ethnically Igbo, Asaba was not part of the Igbo-dominated Biafra, remaining part of the ethnically diverse midwest region. In the international memory of the war, the midwest action, which claimed several thousand lives, has been eclipsed by the catastrophic events east of…
"La "Diplomazia parallela: Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli Italo-Americani ("Parallel Diplomacy": The Fascist Regime and the Political Mobilization of Italian Americans)
Journal Article La “Diplomaziaparallela”: Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli Italo-Americani (“Parallel diplomacy”: The Fascist regime and the political mobilization of Italian Americans). By Stefano Luconi. (Milan: Franco-Angeli, 2000. 157 pp. Paper, Lit 30,000, ISBN 88-464-2179-5.) In Italian Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Earl Browder: The Failure of American Communism
Journal Article Earl Brow der: The Failure of American Communism. By James G. Ryan. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. xvi, 332 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8173-0843-1.) Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1557–1558, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568199 Publi…
Dorothy Healey Remembers: A Life in the American Communist Party
Journal Article Dorothy Healey Remembers: A Life in the American Communist Party. By Dorothy Healey and Maurice Isserman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. viii + 263 pp. $22.95.) Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida, Tampa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 727–728, https://doi.org/10.2307/20796…
The Communist Party of the United States: From the Depression to World War II.
The New History of American Communism Revisited
The Communist Party of the United States: From the Great Depression to World War II
Journal Article The Communist Party of the United States: From the Great Depression to World War II. By Fraser M. Ottanelli. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. xii + 307 pp. Cloth, $39.00, ISBN 0-8135-1512-9; paper, $14.00, ISBN 0-8135-1613-7.) Get access The Communist Party of the United States: From the Great Depression to World War II. By Ottanelli Fraser M.. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. xii + 307 pp. Cloth, $39…
Love in the Cold War
Journal Article Love in the Cold War. Prod. by David Duggan and Eric Stange. Windfall Films, 1992. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1288–1289, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080979 Published: 01 December …
An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934
Journal Article An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932–1934. Ed. by Michael Gelb. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. x + 363 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-520-07134-4.) Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida, Tampa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 711, https://doi.org…
Indifferent Socialism: Italian Immigrants and the Socialist Party in the Early Nineteen Hundreds
Journal Article Il Socialismo Indifferente: Immigrati Italiani e Socialist Party negli Stati Uniti del Primo Novecento (Indifferent Socialism: Italian Immigrants and the Socialist Party in the Early Nineteen Hundreds). By Elisabetta Vezzosi. (Rome: Lavoro, 1991. xviii + 265 pp. Paper, Lit 35.000, ISBN 88-7910-597-3.) In Italian Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida, Tampa Search for other works by this author on…
The Communist Party of the United States from the Depression to World War II
All in the Family
New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism
Journal Article New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U. S. Communism. Ed. by Michael E. Brown, Randy Martin, Frank Rosengarten, and George Snedeker. (New York: Monthly Review, 1993. 330 pp. Cloth, $38.00, ISBN 0-85345-851-0. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-85345-852-9.) Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American H…
Diaspora or International Proletariat: Italian Labor, Labor Migration, and the Making of Multiethnic States, 1815-1939
Diaspora 6:1 1997 Diaspora or International Proletariat? Italian Labor, Labor Migration, and the Making of Multiethnic States, 1815-1939 Donna R. Gabaccia University of North Carolina at Charlotte Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida We offer a transnational and comparative analysis of the "nationalization " of foreign-born workers in western nation states of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.1 An analysis of this complex historical …
Diaspora or International Proletariat? Italian Labor, Labor Migration, and the Making of Multiethnic States, 1815-1939
We offer a transnational and comparative analysis of the "nationalization" of foreign-born workers in western nation states of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An analysis of this complex historical moment is an important foundation for assessing present-day fears of the imminent collapse of nation states. Canadians and Italians wrestling with demands for regional autonomy; German and French voters opting for a "fortress Europe" united aga…
Earl Browder: The Failure of American Communism
Journal Article Earl Brow der: The Failure of American Communism. By James G. Ryan. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. xvi, 332 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8173-0843-1.) Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1557–1558, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568199 Publi…
"La "Diplomazia parallela: Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli Italo-Americani ("Parallel Diplomacy": The Fascist Regime and the Political Mobilization of Italian Americans)
Journal Article La “Diplomaziaparallela”: Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli Italo-Americani (“Parallel diplomacy”: The Fascist regime and the political mobilization of Italian Americans). By Stefano Luconi. (Milan: Franco-Angeli, 2000. 157 pp. Paper, Lit 30,000, ISBN 88-464-2179-5.) In Italian Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Laboring Across National Borders: Class, Gender, and Militancy in the Proletarian Mass Migrations
A decade-long project on the migration of Italian laborers around the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries points to the methodological challenges, theoretical debates, and some of the rewards of transnational analysis of class, ethnicity, and gender in the making of modern national states. Analyses of internationally mobile laborers historicize current transnational studies, problematize the historiography of national groups, and …
L'ombra lunga del fascio: Canali di propaganda fascita per gli " italiani d'America" (The long shadow of fascism: Channels of fascist propaganda for "Italian Americans")
Writing on the eve of Pearl Harbor, the exiled Italian historian Gaetano Salvemini explained the widespread support of Italian Americans for the Fascist regime during the 1920s and 1930s as a reaction to the discrimination they suffered in U.S. society. Because they were looked down on as inferior “dagoes” and “wops” many Italian Americans, he wrote, embraced an idealized image of a modern, imperial, and feared “new Italy” that provided them with…
Anti-Fascism and the Shaping of National and Ethnic Identity: Italian American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Research Article| October 01 2007 Anti-Fascism and the Shaping of National and Ethnic Identity: Italian American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 27 (1): 9–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543253 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Fraser Ottanelli; Ant…
The History and Legacy of the Asaba, Nigeria, Massacres
In early October 1967, four months into the Nigerian Civil War, federal troops massacred hundreds in Asaba, a town in southeast Nigeria on the west bank of the Niger. While ethnically Igbo, Asaba was not part of Igbo-dominated Biafra. Through the reconstruction of this event, the article fills a significant gap in the historical record and contributes to the discussion on the impact of traumatic memory at the local and national levels. It also su…
Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880 – 1945
Book Review| March 01 2012 Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880 – 1945 Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880 – 1945Guglielmo, Jennifer Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010 416 pp., $39.95 (cloth) Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (1): 147–149. https://doi.or…
The Asaba massacre and the Nigerian civil war: Reclaiming Hidden History
This article explores the consequences of a massacre of civilians in Asaba, a town on the west bank of the river Niger, during the early stages of the Nigerian civil war. While ethnically Igbo, Asaba was not part of the Igbo-dominated Biafra, remaining part of the ethnically diverse midwest region. In the international memory of the war, the midwest action, which claimed several thousand lives, has been eclipsed by the catastrophic events east of…
Militants and Migrants: A New Model for the Study of International Labor Activism, Nation-building, and Identity
Research Article| October 01 2017 Militants and Migrants: A New Model for the Study of International Labor Activism, Nation-building, and Identity Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli is Professor of History at the University of South Florida. His research concentrates on twentieth-century history with a focus on radical movements, migration, and ethnic history. He has authored and co-authored several books along with many articles …
The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War
In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army, slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins. News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government, with the complicity of Britain, and its significance in the subsequent progress of that conflict was misunderstood. Drawing on archival sources on both sides of the Atlantic and interviews with …
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
On March 25, 2016, in the New York Times op-ed piece “Salute to a Communist,” Arizona senator John McCain wrote to honor the recently deceased Del Berg, the last of the 2,800 U.S. volunteers who had crossed the Atlantic Ocean to fight fascism in Spain eighty years earlier. Berg had been part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, joining 35,000 other volunteers from fifty other countries to defend the Spanish Republic agains…
Hidden Out in the Open: Spanish Migration to the United States, 1875-1930
Spanish migration dates back to early colonization. This long diasporic history, however, has traditionally favored the experiences of missionaries and conquistadors over those of wage workers. The essays in this collection address this omission and provide the first comprehensive English-language study of the hundreds of thousands of Spaniards who left their birthplace and journeyed to the United States and its territories mainly in the quarter …
D anielle B attisti . Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945–1965
The title of Danielle Battisti’s book Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945–1965 mirrors that of the report of a special commission established to examine federal policies on immigration and to recommend reforms by President Truman at the end of his time in office. In the report, the commission advocated that the 1924 National Origins Act’s restrictive quota system—which promoted a hierarchy of distinctions based o…
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