Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA (ePub)
A Historical Exploration of Identity
(Sprache: Englisch)
This volume explores the ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness influenced the identities and integration of Nordic immigrants into the segregated American society in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the ways in which their...
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This volume explores the ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness influenced the identities and integration of Nordic immigrants into the segregated American society in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the ways in which their whiteness both contributed to and challenged American racism and white identity.
Autoren-Porträt
Jana Sverdljuk is Research Librarian and Curator of Migration Archives at the National Library of Norway. She has a PhD from the Centre for Gender Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Terje Mikael Hasle Joranger is the Director of the Norwegian Emigrant Museum and has a Ph.D. in history from the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo.
Erika K. Jackson is an Associate Professor of History at Colorado Mesa University, USA, and the author of Scandinavians in Chicago: The Origins of White Privilege in Modern America.
Peter Kivisto is the Richard A. Swanson Professor of Social Thought at Augustana College and Co-Director of the Laboratory on Transnationalism and Migration Processes at St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He has published 35 books, including works on radical Finnish immigrants in the United States, and more recent work focusing on theories of immigration, particularly transnationalism and multiculturalism. In 2013, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Turku after spending four years there as a Finland Distinguished Professor.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2020, 1. Auflage, 208 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Jana Sverdljuk, Terje Mikael Hasle Joranger, Erika Jackson, Peter Kivisto
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- ISBN-10: 1000164918
- ISBN-13: 9781000164916
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.08.2020
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