Date of Award
Fall 2013
Document Type
Thesis
Terms of Use
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Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History Department
First Advisor
Bruce Dorsey
Second Advisor
Farid Azfar
Abstract
This paper contextualizes the 1891 mass lynching of Italians in New Orleans as a moment in which Italians in New Orleans are marked as racially “Dago.” This paper draws from historical scholarship on race and nativism to explore how the lynching manifested racial, and to a smaller degree nativist, prejudice towards Italians from everyday mindsets in New Orleans at the time.
Recommended Citation
Borkowski, Nicholas , '14, "The mass lynching of Italians in 1891 New Orleans: Marking Italians as racially "Dago"" (2013). Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards. 527.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/theses/527