Some Proposals in Response to Professor Vecoli's Question

Quarterly, 44 (September 1992), 313-47, and David R. Roediger, Towards the Abolition of Whiteness (London: Verso, 1994), particularly Chapter 11. "Whiteness and Ethnicity in the History of White Ethnics' in the United States." 14Donald Tricarico, "Guido: Fashioning an Italian-American Youth Style," The Journal of Ethnic Studies 19 (Spring 1991), 41-66, is a fascinating account of an Italian American youth culture. 15Anna Quindlen, "Hypocrisy from a nation of immigrants," Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN). Quindlen's maternal grandparents were immigrants from Italy. A leading proponent of Proposition 187 in California, Sally Vaughn, who also had Italian grandparents, declared: "I resent them [current immigrants] comparing themselves to my grandparents, who came here legally, worked hard, learned to speak English and tried to be good citizens." Star Tribune, November 6,1994.