Whiteness of a different color : European immigrants and the alchemy of race
(Book)
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
ISBN
0674063716, 9780674063716, 0674951913, 9780674951914
Physical Desc
x, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Brookline - Adult | 305.8 J149w | On Shelf |
Concord - Adult | 305.800973 Jacobson | On Shelf |
Framingham State - Main | E184 .E95 J33 1999 | On Shelf |
Newton - Adult | 305.8 J15W 1998 | On Shelf |
Wellesley - Adult | 305.800973 Jacobson | On Shelf |
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Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
0674063716, 9780674063716, 0674951913, 9780674951914
UPC
9780674063716
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-323) and index.
Description
America's racial odyssey is the subject of this 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 "whiteness studies" and linking it to traditional historical inquiry. Jacobson shows that in this nation of immigrants "race" has been at the core of civic assimilation: ethnic minorities in becoming American were reracialized to become Caucasian. He provides a counterhistory 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jacobson, M. F. (1998). Whiteness of a different color: European immigrants and the alchemy of race . Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-. 1998. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race Harvard University Press, 1998.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race Harvard University Press, 1998.
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