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Immigrating to the United States, Italians, like all others arriving on America's shores, were made to fill out a standardized immigration form. In the box for race, they faced several choices: Italian, Southern Italian, Mediterranean, or Silician. On the line requesting information on color, they wrote simply "white." This identification had profound implications for Italians, as Thomas A. Guglielmo demonstrates in this prize-winning book. While many suffered from racial prejudice and discrimin

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Author

Thomas A. Guglielmo

Publisher

New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282367418

Category

history

Subjects

History, Sociology, Linguistics

Updated

2026-03-24