Joseph P. Cosco is Assistant Professor of English at Old Dominion University.

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Magnificently Miserable Italians and Their Wretched, Princely Italy

1. Jacob Riis: Immigrants Old and New, and the Making of Americans

2. Edward Steiner: All Is (Not) Race?

3. Henry James's Picturesque Peasants: Heroes of Romance or Modern Men?

4. Henry James's "Flagrant Foreigners": Whose Country Is This Anyway?

5. Mark Twain: Racism, Nativism, and the Twinning of Italianness

Conclusion: The Fight for Whiteness

Notes

Bibliography

Index