Title Whiteness of a different color : European immigrants and the alchemy of race / Matthew Frye Jacobson

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [1998] ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (x, 338 pages) : illustrations Series History e-book project 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 Summary 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 by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement of the new field of "whiteness studies" and linking it to traditional historical inquiry. Jacobson shows that in this nation of immigrants "race" has been at the core of civic assimilation: ethnic minorities in becoming American were reracialized to become Caucasian. He provides a counterhistory of how nationality groups such as the Irish or Greeks became Americans as racial groups like Celts or Mediterraneans became Caucasian. Jacobson tracks race as a conception and perception, emphasizing the importance of knowing not only how we label one another but also how we see one another, and how that racialized vision has largely been transformed in this century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-323) and index Notes English Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject 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 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. SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject United States USA Weiße. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0674417801 9780674417809 067441781X 9780674417816 0674063716 9780674063716

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