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Dixie's Italians - by Jessica Barbata Jackson (Hardcover)

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  • In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tens of thousands of Southern Italians and Sicilians immigrated to the American Gulf South.
  • About the Author: Jessica Barbata Jackson is assistant professor of history at Colorado State University.
  • 256 Pages
  • History, United States

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"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tens of thousands of Southern Italians and Sicilians immigrated to the American Gulf South. Arriving during the Jim Crow era at a time when races were being rigidly categorized, these immigrants occupied a racially ambiguous place in society: they were not considered to be of mixed race, nor were they "people of color" or "white." In "Dixie's Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South," Jessica Barbata Jackson shows that these Italian and Sicilian newcomers used their undefined status to become racially transient, moving among and between racial groups as both "white southerners" and "people of color" across communal and state-monitored color lines. "Dixie's Italians" is the first book-length study of Sicilians and other Italians in the Jim Crow Gulf South. Through case studies involving lynchings, disenfranchisement efforts, attempts to segregate Sicilian schoolchildren, and turn-of-the-century miscegenation disputes, Jackson explores the racial mobility that Italians and Sicilians experienced. Depending on the location and circumstance, Italians in the Gulf South were sometimes viewed as white and sometimes not, occasionally offered access to informal citizenship and in other moments denied it. Jackson expands scholarship on the immigrant experience in the American South and explorations of the gray area within the traditionally black/white narrative. Bridging the previously disconnected fields of immigration history, southern history, and modern Italian history, this groundbreaking study shows how Sicilians and other Italians helped to both disrupt and consolidate the region's racially binary discourse and profoundly alter the legal and ideological landscape of the Gulf South at the turn of the century"--



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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tens of thousands of Southern Italians and Sicilians immigrated to the American Gulf South. Arriving during the Jim Crow era at a time when races were being rigidly categorized, these immigrants occupied a racially ambiguous place in society: they were not considered to be of mixed race, nor were they "people of color" or "white." In Dixie's Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South, Jessica Barbata Jackson shows that these Italian and Sicilian newcomers used their undefined status to become racially transient, moving among and between racial groups as both "white southerners" and "people of color" across communal and state-monitored color lines.

Dixie's Italians is the first book--length study of Sicilians and other Italians in the Jim Crow Gulf South. Through case studies involving lynchings, disenfranchisement efforts, attempts to segregate Sicilian schoolchildren, and turn--of-the--century miscegenation disputes, Jackson explores the racial mobility that Italians and Sicilians experienced. Depending on the location and circumstance, Italians in the Gulf South were sometimes viewed as white and sometimes not, occasionally offered access to informal citizenship and in other moments denied it.

Jackson expands scholarship on the immigrant experience in the American South and explorations of the gray area within the traditionally black/white narrative. Bridging the previously disconnected fields of immigration history, southern history, and modern Italian history, this groundbreaking study shows how Sicilians and other Italians helped to both disrupt and consolidate the region's racially binary discourse and profoundly alter the legal and ideological landscape of the Gulf South at the turn of the century.



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Books such as Dixie's Italians reinforce my love and respect for my paternal and maternal grandparents, who emigrated migrated from my ancestral home of Cefalu, Sicily. They left Sicily hoping to give their families a better way of life in a strange land, whose people then committed vile acts against them and others from Sicily. Jessica Jackson remembers five of them, lynched in 1899 Tallulah, Louisiana, and two who were lynched in 1901 in Mississippi.--Sal Serio, curator of the American Italian Research Library



About the Author



Jessica Barbata Jackson is assistant professor of history at Colorado State University.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .75 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.2 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: LSU Press
Theme: State & Local
Format: Hardcover
Author: Jessica Barbata Jackson
Language: English
Street Date: April 15, 2020
TCIN: 88994156
UPC: 9780807171721
Item Number (DPCI): 247-58-1038
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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