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

How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?

David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to pro…

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