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Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs


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At the vanguard of the study of race and labour in American history, David R. Roediger is 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. He recounts how American ethnic groups considered white today-including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans-once occupied a confused racial status in their new country. They eventually became part of white America thanks to the nascent labour movement, New Deal reforms, and a rise in home-buying. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants- the racist real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighbourhoods- Roediger explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. A masterful history by an award-winning writer, Working Toward Whiteness charts the strange transformation of these new immigrants into the "white ethnics" of America today.

About the Author :
David R. Roediger teaches on the history of race and class in the United States at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is the Babcock Chair of History and of African American Studies. He lives in Champaign, Illinois.

Review :
"Working Toward Whiteness is a tour de force. This book will be the point-of-departure for future studies of 'whiteness.'"--Rudolph J. Vecoli, professor of history, University of Minnesota "David Roediger has given us another of our most compelling, incisive, and elegant analyses of racial subjugation and privilege-in-the-making in the United Sates. Working Toward Whiteness is a brilliant investigation of that historical zone where institutions, ideas, and street-level experiences meet and give form to one another. It may be Roediger's most powerful contribution yet. An exemplary work." "If race is real and not just a method for the haves to decide who will be have-nots, then all European immigrants, from Ireland to Greece would have been 'white' the moment they arrived here. Instead, as documented in David Roediger's excellent Working Toward Whiteness, they were long considered inferior, nearly subhuman, and certainly not white."--Mother Jones "Provocative."--Washington Post


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780465070749
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books
  • Height: 139 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Weight: 410 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0465070744
  • Publisher Date: 08 Aug 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
  • Width: 212 mm


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