Ebook: Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

Part One. SEEING RACE IN NEW IMMIGRANT HISTORY; CHAPTER 1: New Immigrants, Race, and "Ethnicity" in the Long Early Twentieth Century; CHAPTER 2: Popular Language, Social Practice, and the Messiness of Race; Part Two. "INBETWEENNESS"; CHAPTER 3: "The Burden of Proof Restswith Him": New Immigrants and the Structures of Racial Inbetweenness; CHAPTER 4: Inside the Wail: New Immigrant Racial Consciousness; Part Three. ENTERING THE WHITE HOUSE; CHAPTER 5: "A Vast Amount of Coercion": The Ironies of Immigration Restriction; CHAPTER 6: Finding Homes in an Era of Restriction.;A preeminent scholar explores the history of the "new immigrants" who came to the United States in the late nineteenth century and describes how they became insiders by the end of World War II.