Working Toward WhitenessWorking Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White ; the Strange Journey From Ellis Island to the Suburbs
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Current format, Book, 2005, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsAt 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.
In Working Toward Whiteness, David R. Roediger brings the history of his now-classic The Wages of Whiteness, foward into the twentieth century. Roediger recounts how American ethnnic groups considered white today -- including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans -- once occupied a liminal racial status in their new country, and only gradually received the status of "white" Americans. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants -- the racist real estate agreements that keep immigrants out of white neighborhoods -- Roediger explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. Working Toward Whiteness charts the strange transformation of these new immigrants into the "white ethnics" of American today.
From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants - the racist real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods - Roediger explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. Working Toward Whiteness charts the strange transformation of new immigrants into the "white ethnics" of America today - and into America's cultural insiders.
By an award-winning historian of race and labor, a definitive account of how Ellis Island immigrants became accepted as cultural insiders in America
In Working Toward Whiteness, David R. Roediger brings the history of his now-classic The Wages of Whiteness, foward into the twentieth century. Roediger recounts how American ethnnic groups considered white today -- including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans -- once occupied a liminal racial status in their new country, and only gradually received the status of "white" Americans. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants -- the racist real estate agreements that keep immigrants out of white neighborhoods -- Roediger explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. Working Toward Whiteness charts the strange transformation of these new immigrants into the "white ethnics" of American today.
From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants - the racist real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods - Roediger explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. Working Toward Whiteness charts the strange transformation of new immigrants into the "white ethnics" of America today - and into America's cultural insiders.
By an award-winning historian of race and labor, a definitive account of how Ellis Island immigrants became accepted as cultural insiders in America
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