Books by Matthew Frye Jacobson
“Jacobson shows how the large influx of European immigrants that began in the 1840s led to internal divisions in the concept of “white people.”” Read more...
Interviews where books by Matthew Frye Jacobson were recommended
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What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America
by Peggy Pascoe -
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Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
by Matthew Frye Jacobson -
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Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
by Alexandra Minna Stern -
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
by Elizabeth Hinton -
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The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
by Monica Muñoz Martinez
The best books on White Supremacy, recommended by Kathleen Belew
The best books on White Supremacy, recommended by Kathleen Belew
Defined by University of Chicago historian Kathleen Belew, white supremacy is a “broad system of laws, norms and customs that create a society with unequal opportunities for people based on race”. It persists to this day, and has surprising intersections with issues of labor and women’s reproduction. Here, she recommends books for coming to grips with the history of this complex topic.
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Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
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Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America
by Eiichiro Azuma -
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Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity
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Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994
by María Cristina García
The best books on Immigration, recommended by Ana Minian
The best books on Immigration, recommended by Ana Minian
How did the concept of United States immigration being a ‘melting pot’ of diverse nationalities come to be? In this interview, Stanford historian Ana Raquel Minian explores America’s complex, highly racialized history of immigration and recommends five of the books on the subject that have most influenced her.
