Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White : the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
- ISBN-10
- 0465070736
- ISBN-13
- 9780465070732
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 339
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-05-31
- Publisher
- Basic Books (AZ)
- Author
- David R. Roediger
Description
By an award-winning historian of race and labor, a definitive account of how Ellis Island immigrants became accepted as cultural insiders in America
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