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