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Roots Too : White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (494 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674039063
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Roots TooDDC classification:
  • 305.809/073
LOC classification:
  • E184
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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