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