Dixie's Italians : Sicilians, race, and citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South / Jessica Barbata Jackson.

"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tens of thousands of Southern Italians and Sicilians immigrated to the American Gulf South. Arriving during the Jim Crow era at a time when races were being rigidly categorized, these immigrants occupied a racially ambiguous place in societ...

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