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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Edition:First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
Subjects:
European Americans > Race identity.
White people > United States > Race identity.
Immigrants > United States > History.
Racism > United States > History.
Race.
Race discrimination > United States.
United States > Race relations.
Physical Description:x, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
European immigrants and the alchemy of race.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Free white persons" in the Republic, 1790-1840
  • Anglo-Saxons and others, 1840-1924
  • Becoming Caucasian, 1924-1965
  • 1877: the instability of race
  • Looking Jewish, seeing Jews
  • The crucible of empire
  • Naturalization and the courts
  • The dawning civil rights era
  • Epilogue: ethnic revival and the denial of white privilege.