Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Jou

Description: Working Toward Whiteness by David Roediger How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white? FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues that history into the twentieth century. He recounts how ethnic groups considered white today-including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans-were once viewed as undesirables by the WASP establishment in the United States. They eventually became part of white America, through the nascent labor movement, New Deal reforms, and a rise in home-buying. Once assimilated as fully white, many of them adopted the racism of those whites who formerly looked down on them as inferior. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants-the real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods-Roediger explores the mechanisms by which immigrants came to enjoy the privileges of being white in America. A disturbing, necessary, masterful history, Working Toward Whiteness uses the past to illuminate the present. In an Introduction to the 2018 edition, Roediger considers the resonance of the book in the age of Trump, showing how Working Toward Whiteness remains as relevant as ever even though most migrants today are not from Europe. Author Biography David R. Roediger is the Foundation Professor of American Studies at University of Kansas. The author of The Wages of Whiteness, among other books, he lives in Lawrence, KS. Review "Working Toward Whiteness is a tour de force. This book will be the point-of-departure for future studies of whiteness."--Rudolph J. Vecoli"David Roediger has given us another of our most compelling, incisive, and elegant analyses of racial subjugation and privilege-in-the-making in the United Sates. Working Toward Whiteness is a brilliant investigation of that historical zone where institutions, ideas, and street-level experiences meet and give form to one another. It may be Roedigers most powerful contribution yet. An exemplary work."--Matthew Frye Jacobson, authorof Whiteness of a Different Color and RootsToo: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America"If race is real and not just a method for the haves to decide who will be have-nots, then all European immigrants, from Ireland to Greece would have been white the moment they arrived here. Instead, as documented in David Roedigers excellent Working Toward Whiteness, they were long considered inferior, nearly subhuman, and certainly not white."--Mother Jones"Provocative."--Washington Post Long Description David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness , a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness , Roediger continues that history into the twentieth century. He recounts how ethnic groups considered white today-including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans-were once viewed as undesirables by the WASP establishment in the United States. They eventually became part of white America, through the nascent labor movement, New Deal reforms, and a rise in home-buying. Once assimilated as fully white, many of them adopted the racism of those whites who formerly looked down on them as inferior. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants-the real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods-Roediger explores the mechanisms by which immigrants came to enjoy the privileges of being white in America. A disturbing, necessary, masterful history, Working Toward Whiteness uses the past to illuminate the present. In an Introduction to the 2018 edition, Roediger considers the resonance of the book in the age of Trump, showing how Working Toward Whiteness remains as relevant as ever even though most migrants today are not from Europe. Review Quote "Provocative."-- Washington Post Promotional "Headline" How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white? Details ISBN1541673476 Author David Roediger Pages 368 Year 2018 ISBN-10 1541673476 ISBN-13 9781541673472 Format Paperback Imprint Basic Books Subtitle How Americas Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 305.8009730904 Short Title Working Toward Whiteness Language English Publisher Basic Books US Release Date 2018-12-27 Publication Date 2018-12-27 UK Release Date 2018-12-27 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education NZ Release Date 2019-02-11 AU Release Date 2019-02-11 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137640473;

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