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050 00 $aE184.E95$bJ33 1998
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100 1 $aJacobson, Matthew Frye,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95023496
245 10 $aWhiteness of a different color :$bEuropean immigrants and the alchemy of race /$cMatthew Frye Jacobson.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c1998.
300 $ax, 338 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-323) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: The Fabrication of Race --$tThe Political History of Whiteness.$g1.$t"Free White Persons" in the Republic, 1790-1840.$g2.$tAnglo-Saxons and Others, 1840-1924.$g3.$tBecoming Caucasian, 1924-1965 --$tHistory, Race, and Perception.$g4.$t1877: The Instability of Race.$g5.$tLooking Jewish, Seeing Jews --$tThe Manufacture of Caucasians.$g6.$tThe Crucible of Empire.$g7.$tNaturalization and the Courts.$g8.$tThe Dawning Civil Rights Era.$tEpilogue: Ethnic Revival and the Denial of White Privilege.
520 $aAmerica's racial odyssey is the subject of this work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement of the new field of "whiteness studies" and linking it to traditional historical inquiry.
520 8 $aJacobson shows that in this nation of immigrants "race" has been at the core of civic assimilation: ethnic minorities in becoming American were reracialized to become Caucasian. He provides a counterhistory of how nationality groups such as the Irish or Greeks became Americans as racial groups like Celts or Mediterraneans became Caucasian.
520 8 $aJacobson tracks race as a conception and perception, emphasizing the importance of knowing not only how we label one another but also how we see one another, and how that racialized vision has largely been transformed in this century.
650 0 $aEuropean Americans$xRace identity.
650 0 $aWhite people$xRace identity$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113472
650 0 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009126771
650 0 $aRacism$zUnited States$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110369
650 12 $aWhite People.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D044465
650 12 $aRacial Groups.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D044469
650 12 $aEmigration and Immigration$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004641Q000266
650 12 $aPrejudice.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011287
651 2 $aUnited States.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
852 00 $boff,hsl$hE184.E95$iJ33 1998