Title: The performance of race as a colonial project
Subtitle: New York City English education, 1880-1924
Description: This master's thesis proposes a theory of an expansion of the definition of "whiteness" out of the diversity of nineteenth-century European immigration based on an idea of race as performative.
Subjects: Race, Education, Americanization, Minorities, Whiteness, Immigration
Places: New York (State), New York City
Time periods: ~ 1880 - 1910