Whiteness of a different color, European immigrants and the alchemy of race, Matthew Frye Jacobson
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Whiteness of a different color, European immigrants and the alchemy of race, Matthew Frye Jacobson
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-323) and index
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illustrations
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non fiction
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Whiteness of a different color
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Matthew Frye Jacobson
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European immigrants and the alchemy of race
Summary
The author "argues that race resides not in nature but in the ocntingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by whic power has been organizaed and contested in the United States."--Jacket
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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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