 | GetTextbooks.co.uk Compare Price & Save up to 90% | | |
|
Pepperdine University - Fall 2012 | ||
Section 01 | ||
 | Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Updated Edition) by Matthew Frye Jacobson, Laurie B. Green Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-674-95191-3 / 0674951913 ISBN-13: 978-0-674-95191-4 / 9780674951914 When we speak of race, we tend to categorize nonwhite people into rigid classifications--but how is whiteness itself determined? Yale American Studies professor Matthew Frye Jacobson looks at the American construction of whiteness out of its polyglot European immigrant population. In 1790, United St | |