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Whiteness of a different color: European immigrants and the alchemy of race

Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-

Year: 1999.

Publisher: Harvard University Press.

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Introduction: The Fabrication of Race

THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF WHITENESS

1 "Free White Persons" in the Republic, 1790-1840

2 Anglo-Saxons and Others, 1840-1924

3 Becoming Caucasian, 1924-1965

HISTORY, RACE, AND PERCEPTION

4 1877: The Instability of Race

5 Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews

THE MANUFACTURE OF CAUCASIANS

6 The Crucible of Empire

7 Naturalization and the Courts

8 The Dawning Civil Rights Era

Epilogue: Ethnic Revival and the Denial of White Privilege

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Acknowledgments

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Title:

Whiteness of a different color : European immigrants and the alchemy of race Matthew Frye Jacobson.

Author:

Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-

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Whiteness of a different color : European immigrants and the alchemy of race Matthew Frye Jacobson.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

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Subject Headings:

• European Americans -- Race identity
• Immigrants -- United States -- History
• Racism -- United States -- History
• Race
• Race discrimination -- United States
• Whites -- United States -- Race identity
• United States -- Race relations

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