| Descript. |
xii, 496 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Greeks and Scythians -- Romans, Celts, Gauls, and Germani -- White slavery -- White slavery as beauty ideal -- The White beauty ideal as science -- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach names White people "caucasian" -- Germaine de stae?l's German lessons -- Early American White people observed -- The first alien wave -- The education of Ralph Waldo Emerson -- English traits -- Emerson in the history of American White people -- The American school of anthropology -- The second enlargement of American whiteness -- William Z. Ripley and the races of Europe -- Franz Boas, dissenter -- Roosevelt, Ross, and race suicide -- The discovery of degenerate families -- From degenerate families to sterilization -- Intelligence testing of new immigrants -- The great unrest -- The melting pot a failure? -- Anthroposociology : the science of alien races -- Refuting racial science -- A new White race politics -- The third enlargement of American whiteness -- Black nationalism and White ethnics -- The fourth great enlargement of American whiteness. |
| Subject |
White people -- Race identity -- United States.
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White people -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| ISBN |
9780393049343 (hbk.) |
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0393049345 (hbk.) |
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