Anti-Italianism

Anti-Italianism
Title Anti-Italianism PDF eBook
Author W. Connell
Publisher Springer
Pages 448
Release 2010-12-20
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0230115322

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There has been an odd reluctance on the part of historians of the Italian American experience to confront the discrimination faced by Italians and Americans of Italian ancestry. This volume is a bold attempt by an esteemed group of scholars and writers to discuss the question openly by charting the historical and cultural boundaries of stereotypes, prejudice, and assimilation. Contributors offer a continuous series of cultural encounters and experiences in television, literature, and film that deserve the attention of anyone interested in the larger themes of American history.

Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-century France

Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-century France
Title Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-century France PDF eBook
Author Henry Heller
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 332
Release 2003-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780802036896

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He also discusses the important role of anti-Italian xenophobia in the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, the Estates-General of Blois in 1576-7, the Catholic League revolt, and the triumph of Henri IV.".

Anti-Italianism

Anti-Italianism
Title Anti-Italianism PDF eBook
Author W. Connell
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 0
Release 2011-09-28
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780230108295

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There has been an odd reluctance on the part of historians of the Italian American experience to confront the discrimination faced by Italians and Americans of Italian ancestry. This volume is a bold attempt by an esteemed group of scholars and writers to discuss the question openly by charting the historical and cultural boundaries of stereotypes, prejudice, and assimilation. Contributors offer a continuous series of cultural encounters and experiences in television, literature, and film that deserve the attention of anyone interested in the larger themes of American history.

Wop!

Wop!
Title Wop! PDF eBook
Author Salvatore John LaGumina
Publisher Guernica Editions
Pages 338
Release 1999
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9781550710472

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Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. Italians have been subject to some of the most blatant, brutal, and course forms of discrimination to affect any people. This volume investigates anti-Italian discrimination in the USA.

Are Italians White?

Are Italians White?
Title Are Italians White? PDF eBook
Author Jennifer Guglielmo
Publisher Routledge
Pages 344
Release 2012-11-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1136062424

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This dazzling collection of original essays from some of the country's leading thinkers asks the rather intriguing question - Are Italians White? Each piece carefully explores how, when and why whiteness became important to Italian Americans, and the significance of gender, class and nation to racial identity.

Queer (re)readings in the French Renaissance

Queer (re)readings in the French Renaissance
Title Queer (re)readings in the French Renaissance PDF eBook
Author Gary Ferguson
Publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Pages 394
Release 2008
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780754663775

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Reading works of Renaissance literature against their ancient classical sources, this book examines representations of homosexuality in sixteenth-century France and stresses the historical coexistence of different models of homosexuality. The texts and topics covered include the Decameron and its translation and reception in France, the poetry of Ronsard, Montaigne's Essais, works in praise of and satirising Henri III, Brantôme's Dames galantes, and the figures of the androgyne and the hermaphrodite.

Herstory

Herstory
Title Herstory PDF eBook
Author Melville J. D.
Publisher Xlibris Corporation
Pages 257
Release 2012-11
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1479729604

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Herstory was a vampire novel, a Hitler Wins novel, also a horror science fiction novel, and science fiction novel. The first unofficial Norma Shearer novel was the second released one. In this novel, Norma Shearer, the former Mrs. Irving Thalberg, has a romance with Eddie Gein, the first serial killer. They are sybarites, indulging in hedonism and many other pleasures.