Dr. Brera presents his research on the nativist local press of New Orleans and Louisiana in the Jim Crow US South and the way in which the Italian communities of Louisiana adapted to the rapidly evolving racial landscape and tried to propose their own narrative in the public discourse by establishing two long-running ethnic newspapers – L’Italo-Americano (1885-1917) and La Voce Coloniale (1917-1960) – that soon became paper 'doubles' of the immigrants’ Motherland.
Video courtesy of Seton Hall University.
