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Whiteness of a different color European immigrants and the alchemy of race

Title
Whiteness of a different color [electronic resource] : European immigrants and the alchemy of race / Matthew Frye Jacobson.
Author
Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

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American Council of Learned Societies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org
Description
x, 338 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Uniform Title
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-323) and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic text and image data.
Contents
"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.
OCLC
(dli)HEB02522
Author
Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-
Title
Whiteness of a different color [electronic resource] : European immigrants and the alchemy of race / Matthew Frye Jacobson.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Edition
1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Series
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-323) and index.
Reproduction
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.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
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