Working Toward Whiteness How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

Name: Working Toward Whiteness How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
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ISBN: 9780465070749

ISBN-10: 0465070744

ISBN-13: 9780465070749

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: David R. Roediger

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At the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history, David Roediger is one of the most highly respected scholars in his field. He is also the author of the now-classic The Wages of Whiteness, a study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, he continues that history into the twentieth century, recounting how American ethnic groups that are considered white today, such as Jewish, Italian-, and Polish-Americans, once occupied a confused racial status in their new country. While some historians have claimed that these immigrants were "white on arrival," Roediger paints a very different picture, showing that…

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List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 8/8/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English