Roots Too - White Ethnic Revival in Postcivil Rights America

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Frye Jacobson is Professor of American Studies at Yale University. Klappentext In the 1970s! whites mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants in the New World. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity! Jacobson establishes a broader white social and political consensus responding to the political language of the Civil Rights movement. Zusammenfassung In the 1970s! whites mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants in the New World. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity! Jacobson establishes a broader white social and political consensus responding to the political language of the Civil Rights movement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Beyond Hansen's Law 1. Hyphen Nation 2. Golden Door! Silver Screen 3. Old World Bound 4. The Immigrant's Bootstraps! and Other Fables 5. I Take Back My Name 6. Our Heritage Is Our Power 7. Whose America (Who's America)? Coda: Ireland at JFK Notes Acknowledgments Index

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Frye Jacobson, Jacobson Matthew Frye
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2008
• EAN: 9780674027435
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02743-5
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, History, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, c 1970 to c 1979