{"product_id":"a-great-conspiracy-against-our-peter-g-vellon-9780814788486","title":"A Great Conspiracy Against Our Race: Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn A Great Conspiracy against Our Race, Peter Vellon explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and \"swarthy\" race, assimilated into dominant white culture through the influential national and radical Italian language press in New York City. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRacial history has always been the thorn in America's side, with a swath of injustices--slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills--perpetrated against black people. This very history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in this country. Many of the European immigrant groups now considered white also had to struggle with their own racial identities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExamining the press as a cultural production of the Italian immigrant community, this book investigates how this immigrant press constructed race, class, and identity from 1886 through 1920. Their frequent coverage of racially charged events of the time, as well as other topics such as capitalism and religion, reveals how these papers constructed a racial identity as Italian, American, and white. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Great Conspiracy against Our Race vividly illustrates how the immigrant press was a site where socially constructed categories of race, color, civilization, and identity were reworked, created, contested, and negotiated. Vellon also uncovers how Italian immigrants filtered societal pressures and redefined the parameters of whiteness, constructing their own identity. This work is an important contribution to not only Italian American history, but America's history of immigration and race.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter G. Vellon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814788483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814788486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.48h x 5.90w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2015 pg. 1047","brand":"Peter G. Vellon","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086926917887,"sku":"9780814788486","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_004f3136-2656-4a14-b025-90ba85beab02.jpg?v=1769097329","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-great-conspiracy-against-our-peter-g-vellon-9780814788486","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}