Roots too : White ethnic revival in post-civil rights America / Matthew Frye Jacobson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--United States--Ethnic identity.

White people.

Ethnicity--United States.

Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the 1970's, white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants making their way in the New World through the sweat of their brow. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Roots Too establishes a broader white social and political consensus arising in response to the political language of the Civil Rights movement.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction: Beyond Hansen's Law

Chapter One. Hyphen Nation

Chapter Two. Golden Door, Silver Screen

Chapter Three. Old World Bound

Chapter Four. The Immigrant's Bootstraps, and Other Fables

Chapter Five. I Take Back My Name

Chapter Six. Our Heritage Is Our Power

Chapter Seven. Whose America (Who's America)?

Coda: Ireland at JFK

Notes. Acknowledgments. Index

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-464) and index.

Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, 2006.

ISBN:

9780674039063

0674039068

OCLC:

433627595