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Working Toward Whiteness : How America's Immigrants Became White - The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs by David R. Roediger (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBasic Books
ISBN-100465070736
ISBN-139780465070732
eBay Product ID (ePID)44183868
Product Key Features
Book TitleWorking Toward Whiteness : How America's Immigrants Became White - The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEmigration & Immigration, Sociology / General, General, Labor
Publication Year2005
GenreSocial Science, Business & Economics, History
AuthorDavid R. Roediger
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight22.5 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-357390
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal305.8009730904
SynopsisAt the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history, David Roediger is one of the most highly respected scholars in his field. He is also the author of the now-classic The Wages of Whiteness , a study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness , he continues that history into the twentieth century, recounting how American ethnic groups that are considered white today, such as Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans, once occupied a confused racial status in their new country.While some historians have claimed that these immigrants were "white on arrival," Roediger paints a very different picture, showing that it wasn't until the 1920s (ironically, just when immigration laws became much more restrictive), that these ethnic groups definitively became part of white America, primarily thanks to the nascent labor movement and a rise in home-buying.From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants --the real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods-- Working Toward Whiteness explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. In this masterful history, which is sure to be a key text in its field, David Roediger charts the strange transformation of these new immigrants into the "white ethnics" of America today., At the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history, David Roediger is one of the most highly respected scholars in his field. He is also the author of the now-classic The Wages of Whiteness, a study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, he continues that history into the twentieth century, recounting how American ethnic groups that are considered white today, such as Jewish, Italian-, and Polish-Americans, once occupied a confused racial status in their new country. While some historians have claimed that these immigrants were "white on arrival," Roediger paints a very different picture, showing that it wasn't until the 1920s (ironically, just when immigration laws became much more restrictive), that these ethnic groups definitively became part of white America, primarily thanks to the nascent labor movement and a rise in home-buying. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants--the real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods--Working Toward Whiteness explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. In this masterful history, which is sure to be a key text in its field, David Roediger charts the strange transformation of these new immigrants into the "white ethnics" of America today., Roediger recounts how American ethnic groups that are considered white today, such as Jewish, Italian-, and Polish-Americans, once occupied a confused racial status in their new country., By an award-winning historian of race and labor, a definitive account of how Ellis Island immigrants became accepted as cultural insiders in America
LC Classification NumberE184.A1
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