| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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L'ombra lunga del fascio: Canali di propaganda fascita per gli "italiani d'America" (The long shadow of fascism: Channels of fascist propaganda for "Italian Americans"). By Stefano Luconi and Guido Tintori. (Milan: M&B, 2004. 154 pp. Paper, €17.00, ISBN 88-7451-014-4.) In Italian.

Writing on the eve of Pearl Harbor, the exiled Italian historian Gaetano Salvemini explained the widespread support of Italian Americans for the Fascist regime during the 1920s and 1930s as a reaction to the discrimination they suffered in U.S. society. Because they were looked down on as inferior "dagoes" and "wops" many Italian Americans, he wrote, embraced an idealized image of a modern, imperial, and feared "new Italy" that provided them with a sense of ethnic pride in U.S. society. Several historians over the last thirty years have built on Salvemini's view that Italian American support for Benito Mussolini was a psychological rather than an ideological reaction to a feeling of inferiority in the host society, and they have shown how Italian Fascist authorities manipulated that sentiment to frame a definition of Italian identity that merged support for Mussolini with the dominant conservative interpretation of "Americanism." In the end, Italian Fascists created and helped promote a definition of Italian American identity that made support for Fascism a key element of Italian American identity.

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