Whiteness of a different color : European immigrants and the alchemy of race /

America's racial odyssey is the subject of this work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny b...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [1998].
Series:History e-book project.
Subjects:
European Americans > Race identity.
Immigrants > United States > History.
Race discrimination > United States.
Race.
Racism > United States > History.
White people > Race identity > United States.
European Americans > Ethnic identity.
Racial Groups
Américains d'origine européenne > Identité ethnique.
Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
race (group of people)
HISTORY > United States > General.
European Americans > Race identity
Immigrants
Race
Race discrimination
Race relations
Racism
White people > Race identity
Einwanderer
Ethnische Identität
Geschichte
Rassenfrage
Weiße
Europeanen.
Immigranten.
Rassenvraagstuk.
Einwanderung > USA > Geschichte.
Rassenbeziehung > USA > Geschichte.
Rassismus > USA > Geschichte.
Nationalismus > USA > Geschichte.
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
USA
Weiße.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the fabrication of race
  • The political history of whiteness
  • "Free white persons" in the republic, 1790-1840
  • Anglo-Saxons and others, 1840-1924
  • Becoming Caucasian, 1924-1965
  • History, race, and perception
  • 1877 : the instability of race
  • Looking Jewish, seeing Jews
  • The manufacture of Caucasians
  • The crucible of empire
  • Naturalization and the courts
  • The dawning civil rights era
  • Epilogue : ethnic revival and the denial of white privilege.

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