Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

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…

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