Guglielmo

Billy Budd and as "Guglielmo" in Mozart's Così Fan Tuttte.

San Francisco Sentinel 2010

According to Guglielmo, in the first five decades of mass immigration, Italians were often listed as southern or northern Italian for race and white for color.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Since much of southern Italy is closer to Africa than to Rome and for millennia experienced flows of population to and from the “dark continent,” it “should be no surprise,” as historian Thomas Guglielmo puts it, “that many social scientists at the time considered meridionali southern Italians part African—in many cases they were and are.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

According to Guglielmo, a few Italians participated in the mayhem, but “the vast majority of Italians do not appear to have taken part in the Color Riot of 1919.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

As Thomas Guglielmo puts it, “Indeed, not until World War II did many Italians identify openly and mobilize politically as white.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

This, as Guglielmo says, “often meant the most intimate of contact.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

According to Guglielmo, “prior to the 1940s in his many public statements and essays in defense of Italians,” Giambastiani “mentioned whites rarely,” “defended Italians by highlighting their virtues as Italians, not as whites,” and “even in his neighborhood battles against incoming African Americans in the mid-1930s, he shied away from explicit talk about whiteness.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Ferrando and Guglielmo became two American naval officers stationed in Hawaii at the turn of the century while Don Alfonso was renamed Don Amalu and portrayed as an elderly local Hawaiian happy to take their money.

George Heymont: Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu Celebrates 25 Years of Hula in San Francisco George Heymont 2010

Ferrando and Guglielmo became two American naval officers stationed in Hawaii at the turn of the century while Don Alfonso was renamed Don Amalu and portrayed as an elderly local Hawaiian happy to take their money.

George Heymont: Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu Celebrates 25 Years of Hula in San Francisco George Heymont 2010

"We aim for 1,000 skilled young people coming back to Italy just to begin with," said Guglielmo Vaccaro, a deputy from the center-left opposition Democratic Party and a main proponent of the law.

Italy Takes Steps to Address Flight of Talented Youth 2011