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

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Edition

1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-323) and index Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, MPublishing, 2004. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet

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

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

European Americans Whites Immigrants Racism United States Race Race discrimination

author: Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-
associated with: American Council of Learned Societies