Whiteness of a different color Europea n immigrants and the alchemy of race - Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-; American Council of Learned Societies (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999)
"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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-323) and index.
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Keywords: European Americans -- Race identity; Whites -- United States -- Race identity; Immigrants -- United States -- History; Racism -- United States -- History; Race; Race discrimination -- United States; United States -- Race relations