Whiteness of a Different Color

European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

Matthew Frye Jacobson

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$31.50 • £24.95 • €28.50

ISBN 9780674951914

Publication: September 1999

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368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

14 halftones, 2 tables

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Introduction: The Fabrication of Race
I. The Political History of Whiteness
- 1. “Free White Persons” in the Republic, 1790–1840
- 2. Anglo-Saxons and Others, 1840–1924
- 3. Becoming Caucasian, 1924–1965
II. History, Race, and Perception
- 4. 1877: The Instability of Race
- 5. Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews
III. The Manufacture of Caucasians
- 6. The Crucible of Empire
- 7. Naturalization and the Courts
- 8. The Dawning Civil Rights Era
Epilogue: Ethnic Revival and the Denial of White Privilege
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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Co-Winner, 1999 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association

1999 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association

1998 Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association

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