Whiteness of a Different Color European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

Name: Whiteness of a Different Color European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
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ISBN: 9780674951914

ISBN-10: 0674951913

ISBN-13: 9780674951914

Edition: 1998

Authors: Matthew Frye Jacobson

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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.

Book details

List price: $33.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



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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


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index