Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-

Whiteness of a different color Europea n immigrants and the alchemy of race / [electronic resource] : Matthew Frye Jacobson. - 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999. - x, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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.


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


United States-- Race relations.