'Not the race of Dante': Southern Italians as Undesirable Americans

Thesis advisor: James M. O'Toole === This dissertation argues that the movement to restrict European immigration to the United States in the early 1900s was critically supported by a set of ideas that the dissertation refers to as "classic racialism." Derived from several intellectual...

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Main Author: Mezzano, Michael John
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Boston College 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2345/708