Tony Montana. Michael Corleone. Rocky Balboa. Beloved film tropes illuminate a history of race, whiteness, and the fallacy of the American dream.
’s Vinny demands to know what’s so important about his reading material.
Paulie: These Sicilian guys in Louisiana at a factory at around 1899 and they gave the Black workers equal status in the factory. And so the regular white people found out about it and they lynched the five Italian guys who owned the factory. Vinny: Good. They got what they deserved. They shouldn’t have gotten involved with no n----- in the first place!
It’s a striking scene, in part because of its fidelity to history. Extrajudicial killings of Italian Americans weren’t at all uncommon. In fact, the largest documented mass lynching in American history, in 1891, was of when 11 Italian Americans and Italian immigrants were accused of murdering a police chief in New Orleans.
Whiteness, as it relates to Italian American culture, has always been thorny. Vinny frequently uses the N-word, and oftentimes racism toward Black people was core to assimilation for white immigrant-minority groups.
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