Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White Due process of law Year: 1991

Year:   1991

Publisher: The Riverside Press

Book Condition: Very GoodFormat: PaperbackYear:  1986Publisher: Library Communications ServicesEdition:  1stAdditional Condition Info: Please refer to pictures for overall condition

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Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White Due process of law Year: 1991Working Toward Whiteness explores how various European immigrant groups in the United Statessuch as Italian, Jewish, and Polish Americansgradually came to be regarded as white during the early twentieth century. Historian David R. Roediger argues that these communities were not always fully accepted as white by the dominant Anglo American society and often occupied an ambiguous racial status upon their arrival. Drawing on labor history, immigration