Taylor Swift's Grandfather was the 'King of Little Italy'
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C.C.A. Baldi, the Padrone System, and the Colonial Infrastructure of the American Dream

Genuinely interesting history of fascism, Italian unification, migrant labour, and american political power, even if you’re not massively fussed on the nazi-sympathising pop singer

  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Interesting that the poverty and discrimination the early Italian immigrants suffered gets discussed and highlighted, but the padroni system got completely memoryholed.