Italian Food For Thought
“The anti-immigration movement of the time saw Italian immigrants as poisoning American racial purity and unfair competition for domestic workers, as dangerous foreign radicals and incorrigible criminals sent to the United States by a hostile foreign government. Religion, economic forces, and terrorism shaped white Americans’ views of Italian immigrants as fundamentally foreign, as unwanted competition for labor, and as carriers of violent radicalism.” Buzzfeed’s Adam Serwer with a look back at an American story that continues to be written: How a 125 year-old mass lynching tried to make America great again.