Matthew Frye Jacobson Whiteness of a Different Color (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Whiteness of a Different ColorCondition: NewEAN: 9780674951914ISBN: 9780674951914Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/01/1999Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 404gAuthor: Matthew Frye JacobsonLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of RaceISBN-10: 0674951913Description: America’s racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable 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, Jacobson shows that in this nation of immigrants “race” has been at the core of civic assimilation: ethnic minorities in becoming American were re-racialized to become Caucasian. He provides a counter-history of how nationality groups such as the Irish or Greeks became Americans as racial groups like Celts or Mediterraneans became Caucasian.Jacobson 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. The stages of racial formation—race as formed in conquest, enslavement, imperialism, segregation, and labor migration—are all part of the complex, and now counterintuitive, history of race. Whiteness of a Different Color traces the fluidity of racial categories from an immense body of research in literature, popular culture, politics, society, ethnology, anthropology, cartoons, and legal history, including sensational trials like the Leo Frank case and the Draft Riots of 1863.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Year: 1999 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Whiteness of a Different Color

Title: Whiteness of a Different Color

EAN: 9780674951914

ISBN: 9780674951914

Release Date: 09/01/1999

Release Year: 1999

Subtitle: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

ISBN-10: 0674951913

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Genre: History

Topic: Society & Culture

Number of Pages: 368 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Whiteness of a Different Color : European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Item Height: 1 in

Subject: Emigration & Immigration, United States / General

Publication Year: 1999

Item Weight: 13 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Social Science, History

Item Length: 9.2 in

Author: Matthew Frye Jacobson

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback