Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

摘要: This fascinating new book by an award-winning historian of race and labour tells the definitive story how Ellis Island immigrants became accepted as cultural insiders in America At vanguard study American history, David Roediger is one most highly respected scholars his field. He also author now-classic The Wages Whiteness, a racism development white working class nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward he continues that history to twentieth century, recounting ethnic groups are considered today, such Jewish, Italian Polish Americans, once occupied confused racial status their own country. While some historians have claimed these were "white on arrival", paints very different picture, showing it wasn't until 1920's (ironically just when immigration laws much more restrictive), definitively part America, primarily thanks nascent movement rise home-buying. From slurs racially restrictive covenants - real estate agreements ensured all-white neighbourhoods Whiteness explores murky realities twentieth-century this masterful which sure be key text its field, charts strange transformation into ethnics" today.