Italian immigrants faced Jim Crow and anti-miscegenation laws

Evidence

For the next three decades, Italian immigrants would be racialized as Black, making them subject to anti-miscegenation laws, Jim Crow laws, and other forms of racial discrimination. In 1914, a White farmers’ association in Louisiana included Italians and Sicilians as ineligible for membership along with Japanese, Chinese, Mongolians, Asians, and Blacks. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 393

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Bank officials racialized Italians as descendants of Roman slaves — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1406; Southern congressmen framed southern European immigrants as racially impure — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 984; Italian immigrants were lynched for alleged crimes without legal process. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 538