Anti-Italianism
Title | Anti-Italianism PDF eBook |
Author | W. Connell |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2010-12-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230115322 |
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
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 |
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
Title | Anti-Italianism PDF eBook |
Author | W. Connell |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-09-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780230108295 |
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!
Title | Wop! PDF eBook |
Author | Salvatore John LaGumina |
Publisher | Guernica Editions |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781550710472 |
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?
Title | Are Italians White? PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Guglielmo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136062424 |
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
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 |
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
Title | Herstory PDF eBook |
Author | Melville J. D. |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2012-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1479729604 |
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.