Friday, January 3, 9:30–11:30 a.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

29. The Transnational and State Influences on Popular Perceptions of U.S. Ethnic Groups, 1890–1940

Hilton, Williford Room C

Joint session with the Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Chair: Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University

Papers: Immigrant Advocates, Ethnic Bias, and Public Health in Progressive-Era U.S. Immigration Policy
Deirdre M. Moloney, St. Francis University

Creating and Contesting Mexican Identity in the Rural Midwest, 1920–37
Kathleen Anne Mapes, State University of New York College at Geneseo

"Unwop the Wops": The Italian Fascist State's Role in Italian American Anti-defamation in Chicago
Peter R. D'Agostino, University of Illinois at Chicago

Comment: Matthew Frye Jacobson

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