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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-03 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-30 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Scandinavian immigrants encountered a strange paradox in 1890s Chicago. Though undoubtedly foreign, these newcomers were seen as Nordics--the "race" proclaimed
Language: en
Pages: 212
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Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-09-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in t
Language: en
Pages: 416
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