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- The following day, FDR issued Proclamations 2526 and 2527, placing foreign-born Germans and Italians (respectively) within the same enemy alien category as foreign-born Japanese. Essentially, any individual from any enemy nation who had not initiated paperwork for naturalization was considered an enemy alien.
www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/proclamation-2527-internment-italian-americans
Oct 12, 2019 · The story of how Italian immigrants went from racialized pariah status in the 19th century t o white Americans in good standing in the 20th offers a window onto the alchemy through which race is...
Italians were the biggest group of immigrants to the United States who passed through Ellis Island for much of the late 19th and early 20th century; between 1876 and 1930, 5 million Italians...
Jan 14, 2019 · The Berizzis were just a few of at least 600,000 Italians and Italian Americans—many of them naturalized citizens—swept up in a wave of racism and persecution during World War II.
By the 1940s, Italian Americans—such as Fiorello LaGuardia—had secured political positions of power, but the rise of Benito Mussolini in Italy gave pause to the Department of Justice, the FBI, and President Roosevelt.
- Malloryk
accompanied by the actions of New York’s radical activists, Italian Americans for a Multicultural United States (IAMUS), marked the beginning of a culturally critical interaction which led to the creation of larger public forums such as the 1997 American Italian Historical Association’s national conference “Shades of
- Fred L. Gardaphé
- 2002
Nearly half of Italian immigrants would eventually return to Italy, but today’s Italian-American community is descended from those who decided to remain in America. They brought over their families and created ethnic enclaves in Northern cities and small industrial towns of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
In his keynote address to the 1994 American Italian Historical Association’s national conference, Vecoli challenged the notion of Italian Americans being white. Using numerous examples from history in which Italian Americans were not always considered white, he argued that:
