
Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
David Roediger(Author)
Basic Books (Publisher)
Published on 8. August 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-465-07074-9 (ISBN)
Description
At the vanguard of the study of race and labour in American history, David R. Roediger is the author of the now-classic The Wages of Whiteness , a study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness , he continues that history into the twentieth century. He recounts how American ethnic groups considered white today-including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans-once occupied a confused racial status in their new country. They eventually became part of white America thanks to the nascent labour movement, New Deal reforms, and a rise in home-buying. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants- the racist real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighbourhoods- Roediger explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. A masterful history by an award-winning writer, Working Toward Whiteness charts the strange transformation of these new immigrants into the "white ethnics" of America today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 139 mm
Width: 212 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-07074-9 (9780465070749)
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David R. Roediger
Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
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06/2005
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Person
David R. Roediger teaches on the history of race and class in the United States at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is the Babcock Chair of History and of African American Studies. He lives in Champaign, Illinois.