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1. Abuse to Acceptance: Cleveland’s Italian Community from 1880-1920

Description:: Each successive wave of immigrants to America has faced prejudice founded in fear and uncertainty. Immigrants from Italy were particularly discriminated against in the early years of their arrival, from 1880 through 1920. They faced violence, racial slurs, and media attacks based on an unsubstantiated stereotype of criminality. This project...
Keyword:: race, immigration, ethnicity, Cleveland, Italian, Italian-American, whiteness, industrial, and Midwest
Subject:: History
Creator:: Isabel Robertson
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2018
Date Modified:: 04/20/2018
Date Created:: 2017-06-02
Resource Type:: Research Paper