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‘Sempre la Questione di Razza’: Ideas of Race in the Italian American Press, 1890-1915

Name: ‘Sempre la Questione di Razza’: Ideas of Race in the Italian American Press, 1890-1915
Start: 2001-05-17T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2001-05-17T20:00:00-04:00
Location: John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY

Peter Vellon, CUNY Graduate Center

Peter Vellon, who is writing his dissertation in the PhD Program in History at the CUNY Graduate School, explores how the early Italian American press reflected a variety of unexpectedly complex views on racial matters concerning both African Americans and Italian Americans.

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‘Sempre la Questione di Razza’: Ideas of Race in the Italian American Press, 1890-1915