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IHSI Lecture Series – Down in the Delta: Race Relations between African and Italian Americans in Mississippi, 1880-1940 by Charlene J. Fletcher, Ph.D.
Glendale Library 3660 East 62nd St, Indianapolis, IN, United StatesIHSI Lecture Series – Down in the Delta: Race Relations between African and Italian Americans in Mississippi, 1880-1940 by Charlene J. Fletcher, Ph.D. This lecture will explore Italian migration and experiences in the Mississippi Delta between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. It interrogates the Italian padrone system as a form of confinement and examines […]
