作品情報

民族性は、法や文化の中で人種という形を帯びていく。

David A. J. Richards が、イタリア系アメリカ人の歴史を人種、法、文化の交点から読み直す。民族的同化と差異化の力学を考えるための、法思想的な議論を含む。

書籍情報

出版社

NYU Press

発売日

1999-07-01

ページ数

288ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

15.93 x 2.49 x 23.47 cm

ISBN-13

9780814775202

ISBN-10

0814775209

価格

24359 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/History/Americas/United States/20th Century

When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black. The first study of its kind, Italian American explores the acculturation process of Italian immigrants in terms of then-current patterns of European and American racism. Delving into the political and legal context of flawed liberal nationalism both in Italy (the Risorgimento) and the United States (Reconstruction Amendments), Richards examines why Italian Americans were so reluctant to influence depictions of themselves and their own collective identity. He argues that American racism could not have had the durability or political power it has had either in the popular understanding or in the corruption of constitutional ideals unless many new immigrants, themselves often regarded as racially inferior, had been drawn into accepting and supporting many of the terms of American racism. With its unprecedented focus on Italian American identity and an interdisciplinary approach to comparative culture and law, this timely study sheds important light on the history and contemporary importance of identity and multicultural politics in American political and constitutional debate.

Author of numerous books including Conscience and the Constitution: History, Theory, and Law of the Reconstruction Amendments and Women, Gays, and the Constitution: The Grounds of Feminism and Gay Rights in Culture and Law, David A. J. Richards is Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law at New York University.

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