A Great Conspiracy against Our Race: Italian Im. Vellon Paperback<|

A Great Conspiracy Against Our RaceItalian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century\nAuthor(s): Peter G. Vellon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479853458, 978-1479853458\nSynopsis\nIn 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. \n Racial history has always been the thorn in America's side, with a swath of injusticesslavery, lynching, segregation, and many other illsperpetrated 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. \n Examining the press as a cultural .