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"America's racial odyssey is the subject of this work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement of the new field of "whiteness studies" and linking it to traditional historical inquiry. Jacobson shows that in this nation of immigrants "race" has been at the core of civic assimilation: ethnic minorities in becoming American were reracialized to become Caucasian. He provides a counterhistory of how nationality groups such as the Irish or Greeks became Americans as racial groups like Celts or Mediterraneans became Caucasian." "Jacobson tracks race as a conception and perception, emphasizing the importance of knowing not only how we label one another but also how we see one another, and how that racialized vision has largely been transformed in this century."--Jacket

European Americans --- Race identity --- Whites --- United States --- Immigrants --- History --- Racism --- Race relations --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:97G --- Ethnology --- Europeans --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Geschiedenis van Noord-Amerika --- Race relations. --- Race question --- White people --- White persons --- Caucasian race --- Américains d'origine européenne --- Einwanderer. --- Ethnische Identität. --- Europeanen. --- Geschichte. --- Immigranten. --- Immigrants. --- Race discrimination --- Race discrimination. --- Race. --- Racial Groups. --- Racism. --- Racisme --- Rassenfrage. --- Rassenvraagstuk. --- Wei�e. --- Identité ethnique. --- Race identity. --- Histoire --- USA. --- United States. --- Verenigde Staten. --- États-Unis --- Relations raciales.

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Sociology of minorities --- Migration. Refugees --- History of North America --- Jewish religion: persons --- Ireland --- Poland --- United States --- Immigrants --- Irish --- Jews --- Polish people --- 820 Internationale Betrekkingen --- 841.5 Bestuur en beleid --- 844.1 Minderheden --- 845 Religie --- 846 Identiteit --- 860 (Vredes)cultuur --- 882.4 Noord-Amerika --- 883.4 West-Azië --- 884.1 Oost-Europa --- 884.2 Noord-Europa --- Poles --- Ethnology --- Irishmen (Irish people) --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Political activity --- History --- Politics and government --- United States of America

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"When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes - classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become 'the next Marian Anderson' veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk tunes before mixed-race audiences in 1950s coffee houses, she was making one of the most portentous decisions in the history of both American music and Civil Rights. Released the same year as her famous rendition of 'I'm on My Way' at the March on Washington, One Grain of Sand captures the social justice project that was Odetta's voice. 'There was no way I could say the things I was thinking, but I could sing them,' she later remarked. In pieces like 'Moses, Moses,' 'Ain't No Grave,' and 'Ramblin' Round Your City,' One Grain of Sand embodies Odetta's approach to the folk repertoire as both an archive of black history and a vehicle for radical expression. For many among her audience, a song like 'Cotton Fields' represented a first introduction to black history at a time when there was as yet no academic discipline going by this name, and when history books themselves still peddled convenient fictions of a fundamentally 'happy' plantation past. And for many among her audience, black and white, this young woman's pride in black artistry and resolve, and her open rage and her challenge to whites to recognize who they were and who they had been, too, modeled the very honesty and courage that the movement now called for"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Folk music --- Folk songs --- African Americans --- Civil rights movements --- History and criticism. --- Music --- History --- Odetta,

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Between 2009 and 2013, as the nation contemplated the historic election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the 'historian's eye' during this tumultuous period. Having collected several thousand images, Jacobson began to reflect on their raw, informal immediacy alongside the recognition that they comprised an archive of a moment with unquestionable historical significance. This book presents more than 100 images alongside Jacobson's recollections of their moments of creation and his understanding of how they link past, present, and future. The images reveal diverse expressions of civic engagement that are emblematic of the aspirations, expectations, promises, and failures of this period in American history.

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Immigrants --- United States --- History --- 19th century --- Jews --- Politics and government --- Political activity --- Irish (Nation) --- Poles (Nation) --- Irish --- Polish people --- Politics and government.