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Working toward Whiteness : how America's immigrants became White : the strange journey from Ellis Island to the suburbs / David R. Roediger.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 184 .A1 R645 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roediger, David R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Ethnic relations--History.
- United States.
- Americanization.
- White people--Race identity--United States.
- White people.
- Working class--United States--History.
- Working class.
- Race discrimination--United States--History.
- Race discrimination.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Ethnic relations.
- White people--Race identity.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 339 pages ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- How America's immigrants became white
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, ©2005.
- Summary:
- Even into the early part of the 20th century, ethnic groups such as Jews, Italians and Poles occupied a confused racial status in America. This text explores the murky realities of race in 20th century America, explaining how they transformed into the 'white ethnics' of today's America.
- Contents:
- New immigrants, race, and "ethnicity" in the long early twentieth century
- Popular language, social practice, and the messiness of race
- "The burden of proof rests with him" : new immigrants and the structures of racial inbetweenness
- Inside the wail : new immigrant racial consciousness
- "A vast amount of coercion" : the ironies of immigration restriction
- Finding homes in an era of restriction
- A New Deal, an industrial union, and a White House : what the new immigrant got into
- Afterword : the houses we've lived in and the workings of whiteness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-319) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection.
- ISBN:
- 0465070736
- 9780465070732
- 0465070744
- 9780465070749
- OCLC:
- 60546907
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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