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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
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.
United States > Race relations.
Racial Groups
Américains d'origine européenne > Identité ethnique.
Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Immigrants.
Race discrimination.
Race relations.
Racism.
White people > Race identity.
United States.
Einwanderer
Ethnische Identität
Geschichte
Rassenfrage
Weiße.
USA.
Europeanen.
Immigranten.
Rassenvraagstuk.
Einwanderung > USA > Geschichte.
Rassenbeziehung > USA > Geschichte.
Rassismus > USA > Geschichte.
Nationalismus > USA > Geschichte.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.