Whiteness of a Different Color

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
Cover of the book Whiteness of a Different Color by Matthew Frye  Jacobson, Harvard University Press
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Author: Matthew Frye Jacobson ISBN: 9780674417816
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: September 1, 1999
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Matthew Frye Jacobson
ISBN: 9780674417816
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: September 1, 1999
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English
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.
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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.

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