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"Until recently, the study of American ethnic history focused almost entirely on groups who fought for legitimacy, operating under the premise that those with uncontested whiteness required no further study. Yet, just as it is vital to study the history of groups who fought to identify as white, so too is it essential to investigate the process by which those who achieved racial hegemony were able to do so. Scandinavians in Chicago explores ideological, gendered concepts of Nordic whiteness and Scandinavian ethnicity employed by native-born Americans in Chicago during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to construct societal hegemony. The focus of this book advances a more comprehensive understanding of the Scandinavian-American experience by examining the process by which Nordics became the embodiment of whiteness and thus were granted racial privilege. This study's intention is to help bridge the gap in our understandings of white racial identity by analyzing the history of those who benefitted most for a social constructed hierarchy of race in America. As evidenced in the election cycle of 2016, America is a country staunchly divided by economic background, ideological positioning, political beliefs, and racial difference, as well as in our understandings of those differences and how we got to where we are today"--

Scandinavian Americans --- Whites --- White people --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- Scandinavians --- Race identity

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Traces the idea of a white race, showing how the origins of the American identity were tied to the elevation of white skin as the embodiment of beauty, power, and intelligence, and how even intellectuals insisted that only Anglo Saxons were truly American.

Whites --- History. --- Race identity --- United States --- Race relations. --- White people --- White persons --- History --- Race question --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- World history

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White people --- White persons --- Decolonization --- Whites --- Zimbabwe --- Politics and government --- Race relations. --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization --- Postcolonialism

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The history of colonial land alienation, the grievances fuelling the liberation war, and post-independence land reforms have all been grist to the mill of recent scholarship on Zimbabwe. Yet for all that the countryís white farmers have received considerable attention from academics and journalists, the fact that they have always played a dynamic role in cataloguing and representing their own affairs has gone unremarked. It is this crucial dimension that Rory Pilossof explores in The Unbearable Whiteness of Being. His examination of farmersí voices ñ in The Farmer magazine, in memoirs, and in

Whites --- Farmers --- Farmers. --- Race relations. --- Whites. --- History. --- Zimbabwe --- Zimbabwe. --- White people --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- Farm operators --- Operators, Farm --- Planters (Persons) --- Agriculturists --- Rural population

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In the 1970's, white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants making their way in the New World through the sweat of their brow. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Roots Too establishes a broader white social and political consensus arising in response to the political language of the Civil Rights movement.

Whites --- Ethnicity --- White people --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- Ethnic identity. --- Sociology of minorities --- National movements --- United States --- United States of America