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

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A preeminent scholar explores the history of the "new immigrants" who came to the United States in the late nineteenth century and describes how they became insiders by the end of World War II. Abstract: A preeminent scholar explores the history of the "new immigrants" who came to the United States in the late nineteenth century and describes how they became insiders by the end of World War II.  Read more... Content: Part One. SEEING RACE IN NEW IMMIGRANT HISTORY CHAPTER 1: New Immigrants, Race, and "Ethnicity" in the Long Early Twentieth Century CHAPTER 2: Popular Language, Social Practice, and the Messiness of Race Part Two. "INBETWEENNESS" CHAPTER 3: "The Burden of Proof Restswith Him": New Immigrants and the Structures of Racial Inbetweenness CHAPTER 4: Inside the Wail: New Immigrant Racial Consciousness Part Three. ENTERING THE WHITE HOUSE CHAPTER 5: "A Vast Amount of Coercion": The Ironies of Immigration Restriction CHAPTER 6: Finding Homes in an Era of Restriction. CHAPTER 7: A New Deal, an Industrial Union, and a White House: What the New Immigrant Got IntoAFTERWORD: The Houses We've Lived in and the Workings of Whiteness ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES INDEX.