Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
David R. Roediger explores how America’s immigrants came to be understood as white. Following their journey from Ellis Island to the suburbs, this history examines changing ideas of race, assimilation, identity, and belonging in the United States.
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Working Toward Whiteness examines the changing meaning of whiteness in the United States.
David R. Roediger traces the experiences of America's immigrants from Ellis Island to the suburbs.
The book considers how racial identity, assimilation, and belonging developed across American history.
Its focus is the complex journey through which immigrant groups became understood as white.
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