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Drawing from recent work in ‘thing theory’, this essay examines the significance of ‘things’ in Italian-American immigrant texts, focusing on narratives and photographs from 1880 to 1924. It explores the special importance of ‘things’ such as clothing that enable bodily transformation, constituting a vehicle through which new immigrants’ marginal racial status — their ‘probationary whiteness’ — could...
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