![]() ![]() From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants-the real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods-Roediger explores the mechanisms by which immigrants came to enjoy the privileges of being white in America.Ī disturbing, necessary, masterful history, Working Toward Whiteness uses the past to illuminate the present. Once assimilated as fully white, many of them adopted the racism of those whites who formerly looked down on them as inferior. ![]() They eventually became part of white America, through the nascent labor movement, New Deal reforms, and a rise in home-buying. ![]() He recounts how ethnic groups considered white today-including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans-were once viewed as undesirables by the WASP establishment in the United States. ![]() In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues that history into the twentieth century. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?ĭavid R. ![]()
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