Whiteness of a Different Color

European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

Matthew Frye Jacobson

  • Winner of the 1999 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the American Studies Association
  • 1999 Best Book on the Social Construction of Race, Sponsored by the American Political Science Association Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics
  • Co-Winner of the American Political Science Association's 1999 Ralph J. Bunche Award

Note on Usage

Introduction: The Fabrication of Race

The Political History of Whiteness

"Free White Persons" in the Republic, 1790-1840

Anglo-Saxons and Others, 1840-1924

Becoming Caucasian, 1924-1965

History, Race, and Perception

1877: The Instability of Race

Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews

The Manufacture of Caucasians

The Crucible of Empire

Naturalization and the Courts

The Dawning Civil Rights Era

Epilogue: Ethnic Revival and the Denial of White Privilege

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Whiteness of a Different Color
  • A photo of the author

Matthew Frye Jacobson is Professor of American Studies at Yale University.