Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
ISBN-13:
9781541673472
ISBN-10:
1541673476
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
David R. Roediger
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Basic Books
Format:
Paperback
368 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781541673472
ISBN-10:
1541673476
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
David R. Roediger
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Basic Books
Format:
Paperback
368 pages
Summary
Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (ISBN-13: 9781541673472 and ISBN-10: 1541673476), written by authors
David R. Roediger, was published by Basic Books in 2018.
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How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?
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 updated introduction, Roediger considers the resonance of the book in the age of Donald Trump, showing how Working Toward Whiteness remains as relevant as ever even though most migrants today are not from Europe.
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 updated introduction, Roediger considers the resonance of the book in the age of Donald Trump, showing how Working Toward Whiteness remains as relevant as ever even though most migrants today are not from Europe.
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