Working toward Whiteness
Subtitle: how America's immigrants became White : the strange journey from Ellis Island to the suburbs
By: David R. Roediger
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Government policy; Race identity; Whites; Americanization; Ethnic relations; Race discrimination; Emigration and immigration; Working class; History
Other titles: How America's immigrants became white
Description: Even into the early part of the 20th century, ethnic groups such as Jews, Italians and Poles occupied a confused racial status in America. This text explores the murky realities of race in 20th century America, explaining how they transformed into the 'white ethnics' of today's America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: New immigrants, race, and "ethnicity" in the long early twentieth century; title: Popular language, social practice, and the messiness of race; title: "The burden of proof rests with him" : new immigrants and the structures of racial inbetweenness; title: Inside the wail : new immigrant racial consciousness; title: "A vast amount of coercion" : the ironies of immigration restriction; title: Finding homes in an era of restriction; title: A New Deal, an industrial union, and a White House : what the new immigrant got into; title: Afterword : the houses we've lived in and the workings of whiteness.