| Description |
vi, 339 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-319) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
In Working Toward Whiteness, David R. Roediger brings the history of his now-classic The Wages of Whiteness, forward into the twentieth century. Roediger recounts how American ethnnic groups considered white today -- including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans -- once occupied a liminal racial status in their new country, and only gradually received the status of "white" Americans. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants -- the racist real estate agreements that keep immigrants out of white neighborhoods -- Roediger explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. Working Toward Whiteness charts the strange transformation of these new immigrants into the "white ethnics" of American today. |
| Subject |
United States -- Ethnic relations -- History.
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Americanization.
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White people -- Race identity -- United States.
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Working class -- United States -- History.
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Race discrimination -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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| Added Title |
How America's immigrants became white |
| ISBN |
0465070744 |
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9780465070749 |
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