Are Italians white?: how race is made in America

Introduction: White Lies, Dark Truths / Jennifer Guglielmo

1. Color: White/Complexion: Dark / Louise DeSalvo

2. "No Color Barrier": Italians, Race, and Power in the United States / Thomas A. Guglielmo

3. Race, Nation, Hyphen: Italian-Americans and American Multiculturalism in Comparative Perspective / Donna R. Gabaccia

4. Walking the Color Line: Italian Immigrants in Rural Louisiana, 1880-1910 / Vincenza Scarpaci

5. Making the Italian Other: Blacks, Whites, and the Inbetween in the 1895 Spring Valley, Illinois, Race Riot / Caroline Waldron Merithew

6. "It is Providential That There Are Foreigners Here": Whiteness and Masculinity in the Making of Italian American Syndicalist Identity / Michael Miller Topp

7. I Delitti della Razza Bianca (Crimes of the White Race): Italian Anarchists' Racial Discourse as Crime / Salvatore Salerno

8. Surrealist, Anarchist, Afrocentrist: Philip Lamantia Before and After the "Beat Generation" / Franklin Rosemont

9. Front lines: Hip-Hop, Life, and the Death of Racism / Manifest

10. When Frank Sinatra Came to Italian Harlem: The 1945 "Race Riot" at Benjamin Franklin High School / Gerald Meyer

11. Frank L. Rizzo and the Whitening of Italian Americans in Philadelphia / Stefano Luconi

12. "Italians Against Racism": The Murder of Yusuf Hawkins (R.I.P.) and My March on Bensonhurst / Joseph Sciorra

13. Sangu du Sangu Meu: Growing up Black and Italian in a Time of White Flight / Kym Ragusa

14. Figuring Race / Edvige Giunta

15. Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito: Life in the Borderlands / John Gennari

16. Italiani / Africani / Ronnie Mae Painter and Rosette Capotorto

Afterword: Du Bois, Race, and Italian Americans / David R. Roediger.