Roots too
Subtitle: White ethnic revival in post-civil rights America
By: Matthew Frye Jacobson.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
Subjects: Whites -- United States -- Ethnic identity
Description: "In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane and a common American identity was the norm. Yet by the 1970s, these white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants making their way in the New World through the sweat of their brow. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Roots Too establishes a broader white social and political consensus arising in response to the political language of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements." "In order to understand how white primacy in American life survived the withering heat of the Civil Rights movement and multiculturalism, Matthew Frye Jacobson argues for a full exploration of the meaning of the white ethnic revival and the uneasy relationship between inclusion and exclusion that it has engendered in our conceptions of national belonging."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.