White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power, 1890-1945

Thomas Guglielmo, University of Notre Dame

Thomas Guglielmo, Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, will explore Italians’ encounters with race in Chicago and focus on questions of identity — how Italians came to understand themselves racially over time — and questions of power — what Italians’ precise location was in Chicago’s developing racial structure; whether this location changed much over time; and what consequence this location had on Italians’ everyday lives, opportunities, and social relations.