Working toward Whiteness : how America's immigrants became White : the strange journey from Ellis Island to the suburbs : Roediger, David R : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-319) and index

New immigrants, race, and "ethnicity" in the long early twentieth century -- Popular language, social practice, and the messiness of race -- "The burden of proof rests with him" : new immigrants and the structures of racial inbetweenness -- Inside the wail : new immigrant racial consciousness -- "A vast amount of coercion" : the ironies of immigration restriction -- Finding homes in an era of restriction -- A New Deal, an industrial union, and a White House : what the new immigrant got into -- Afterword : the houses we've lived in and the workings of whiteness