Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights AmericaHarvard University Press, 2009 M07 1 - 496 pages In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane and a common American identity was the norm. Yet by the 1970s, these white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants making their way in the New World through the sweat of their brow. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Roots Too establishes a broader white social and political consensus arising in response to the political language of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. |
Contents
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2 Golden Door Silver Screen | 72 |
3 Old World Bound | 130 |
4 The Immigrants Bootstraps and Other Fables | 177 |
5 I Take Back My Name | 206 |
6 Our Heritage Is Our Power | 246 |
Other editions - View all
Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America Matthew Frye Jacobson Limited preview - 2006 |
Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America Matthew Frye JACOBSON No preview available - 2008 |