Anti-Italianism: Essays on a Prejudice (Italian and Italian American Studies (Palgrave Paperback))
"There are books that change your life ... because their content is a revelation which introduces you to a new world.  Anti-Italianism: Essays on a Prejudiceis undeniably of [this] kind and it has left a deep mark on my soul.  I am sure many readers will feel the same way about it."  -Tiziano T. Dossena,L'Idea Magazine.Recommended by the Sons of Italy National Book Club."Anti-Italianism ... examines the prejudices that have been directed at Italian Americans in different periods, from the lynchings of the late 1800s, ...  to the stereotypes that still today tend to associate individuals of Italian extraction with organized criminality."   -- Stefano Luconi, in Il mestiere di storico."...the best attempt at dealing with the subject matter comprehensively."  -- Niccolò Graffio inMagna Grece. "... conveys the urgency, topicality and importance of the issues at hand." -- Eleni Liarou,Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.