Whiteness of a different color [electronic resource] : Europea n immigrants and the alchemy of race / Matthew Frye Jacobson.
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TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.Edition: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. edDescription: x, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Online resources: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-323) and index.
"Free white persons" in the Republic, 1790-1840 -- Anglo-Saxons and others, 1840-1924 -- Becoming Caucasian, 1924-1965 -- 1877: the instabi lity of race -- Looking Jewish, seeing Jews -- The crucible of empire - - Naturalization and the courts -- The dawning civil rights era -- Epil ogue: ethnic revival and the denial of white privilege.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2004. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the An drew W. Mellon Foundation.
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