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Whiteness of a Different Color
Matthew Frye Jacobson
出版Harvard University Press, 1999-09-01
主題History / United States / General
ISBN06744178019780674417809
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SgI3AwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement of the new field of "whiteness studies" and linking it to traditional historical inquiry, Jacobson shows that in this nation of immigrants "race" has been at the core of civic assimilation: ethnic minorities, in becoming American, were re-racialized to become Caucasian.