Imagining Italians: The Clash of Romance and Race in American Perceptions, 1880-1910

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ILLUSTRATIONS 1.1 A Vegetable Stand in the Mulberry Bend 44 1.2 Feast of St. Rocco, Bandit’s Roost, Mulberry Street 44 1.3 Bandit’s Roost, 391 /2 Mulberry Street 46 1.4 In the Home of an Italian Rag-Picker, Jersey Street 48 1.5 Pietro Learning to Write, Jersey Street 51 1.6 The Mott Street Boys “Keep Off the Grass” 53 ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many people had a role, big or small, in advancing this project. My deep thanks to all of them and in particular to these few: For their inspiration and encouragement, my mentors in the American Studies program at the College of William and Mary, including Robert Gross, Richard Lowry, Kenneth Price, Robert Scholnick, and Ronald Hoffman. For reading the first draft of this work, seeing value in the subject, and offering constructive criticism, my dissertation committee, including Ben Slote of Allegheny College. For their support during my revision of the manuscript, the Department of English and the College of Arts and Letters at Old Dominion University. For promptly locating much needed texts, the interlibrary loan staff at Old Dominion’s Perry Library. For her timely and invaluable assistance in researching the Jacob Riis photographs, Bonnie Yochelson, former curator of prints and photographs at the Museum of the City of New York. For permission to reprint photographs from the Jacob Riis Collection, the Museum of the City of New York. For cheerfully enduring my periods of preoccupation, my wife Kathleen and daughter Marisa. Thanks to all. xi ...