A Great Conspiracy against Our Race. Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century

Book Review| July 01 2016 A Great Conspiracy against Our Race. Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century A Great Conspiracy against Our Race. Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century. By Peter G. Vellon. New York: NYU Press, 2014. x + 171 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $45 (cloth). Diane Vecchio Diane Vecchio Furman University Diane Vecchio is Professor of History at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, where she teaches U.S. history and immigration history and a senior seminar on the Jewish experience in America. She has published articles on Italian and Jewish immigrants and Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America (University of Illinois Press, 2006). She is currently researching the pellagra epidemic in South Carolina in the early twentieth century and working on a book about Jews in the South. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2016) 35 (4): 111–113. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.35.4.111 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Diane Vecchio; A Great Conspiracy against Our Race. Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2016; 35 (4): 111–113. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.35.4.111 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2016 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content

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