Working toward whiteness : how America's immigrants became white : the strange journey from Ellis Island to the suburbs / David R. Roediger.
2006
E184.A1 R645 2006 (Mapit)
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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.
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ISBN
0465070744 (pbk.)
9780465070749 (pbk.)
9780465070749 (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : BasicBooks ; London : Perseus Running [distributor], 2006.
Language
English
Description
vii, 339 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
E184.A1 R645 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.8009730904
Summary
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.
Note
Originally published: 2005.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-319) and index.
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