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Additional authors

1. American Council of Learned Societies.

Found in

1. ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org

Description

1. x, 338 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Uniform title

1. ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Subject

1. European Americans -- Race identity
2. White people -- United States -- Race identity
3. Immigrants -- United States -- History
4. Racism -- United States -- History
5. Race
6. Race discrimination -- United States
7. United States -- Race relations

Contents

1. "Free white persons" in the Republic, 1790-1840 -- Anglo-Saxons and others, 1840-1924 -- Becoming Caucasian, 1924-1965 -- 1877: the instability of race -- Looking Jewish, seeing Jews -- The crucible of empire -- Naturalization and the courts -- The dawning civil rights era -- Epilogue: ethnic revival and the denial of white privilege.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-323) and index.

Reproduction (note)

1. Electronic text and image data.

Author

1. Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-

Title

1. Whiteness of a different color [electronic resource] : European immigrants and the alchemy of race / Matthew Frye Jacobson.

Imprint

1. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

Edition

1. 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.

Series

1. ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-323) and index.

Reproduction

1. 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 access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Connect to:

1. Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Added author

1. American Council of Learned Societies.

Found in:

1. ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/