Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the

Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
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Americaâ€™s racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement of the new field of â€œwhiteness studiesâ€ and linking it to traditional historical inquiry, Jacobson shows that in this nation of immigrants â€œraceâ€ has been at the core of civic assimilation: ethnic minorities in becoming American were re-racialized to become Caucasian. He provides a counter-history of how nationality groups such as the Irish or Greeks became Americans as racial groups like Celts or Mediterraneans became Caucasian.
Jacobson tracks race as a conception and perception, emphasizing the importance of knowing not only how we label one another but also how we see one another, and how that racialized vision has largely been transformed in this century. The stages of racial formationâ€•race as formed in conquest, enslavement, imperialism, segregation, and labor migrationâ€•are all part of the complex, and now counterintuitive, history of race. Whiteness of a Different Color traces the fluidity of racial categories from an immense body of research in literature, popular culture, politics, society, ethnology, anthropology, cartoons, and legal history, including sensational trials like the Leo Frank case and the Draft Riots of 1863.
Country USA
Brand Harvard University Press
Manufacturer Harvard University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber B0092JM35U
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1999-09-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780674951914

Country	USA
Brand	Harvard University Press
Manufacturer	Harvard University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	B0092JM35U
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1999-09-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780674951914

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

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