| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1 | The History Cooperative

Thomas A. Guglielmo. White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890–1945. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 280. $45.00.
Thomas A. Guglielmo's book challenges a cardinal tenet of the whiteness literature: namely, that southern and eastern Europeans had to make great efforts to be accepted as whites. It does so with a nuanced and sophisticated analysis of the experiences of Italian immigrants in Chicago during the early decades after their arrival.	1
Guglielmo builds his argument on a distinction between color and race, referring with the former to the broad, legally significant divisions of the population into such categories as "white" and "black" and with the latter to finer distinctions, such as that between "southern" and "northern" Italians, that still had a racial character in the early twentieth century. With this distinction in hand, he argues forcefully against the notion that Italians were a racially "in-between" group, as claimed in James Barrett and David Roediger's now famous 1997 article, "In-Between People: Race, Nationality, and the 'New Immigrant' Working Class." Instead, he marshals substantial evidence to show that Italians were consistently treated as "whites" by American institutions such as the courts, the unions, and the housing market.	. . .

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