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Working toward whiteness
how America's immigrants became white
By Roediger, David R.
- ISBN
- 978-0-46507-073-2
- Publisher
- New York : Basic Books, c2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 15, 2005
America is a country of immigrants. Roediger (history, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; TheWages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class ) points out that when people of many ethnicities came to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they arrived in a land already considered by their predecessors to be a specific kind of "white man's country." Roediger has written a carefully constructed and referenced book that traces how, and with what success, new arrivals blended into the "whi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
