Format:
x, 197 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9781469673493
,
9781469673486
Content:
"In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people's expectations about middle-class stability. At the same time, demographers have predicted the 'browning' of the nation's middle class-once considered a de facto 'white' category-over the next twenty years as the country becomes increasingly racially diverse. In this book, Joseph O. Jewell takes us back to the turn of the twentieth century to show how evidence of middle-class mobility among Black, Mexican American, and Chinese men generated both new anxieties and varieties of backlash among white populations. Blending cultural history and historical sociology, Jewell chronicles the continually evolving narratives that linked whiteness with middle-class mobility and middle-class manhood. In doing so, Jewell addresses a key issue in the historical sociology of race: how racialized groups demarcate, defend, and alter social positions in overlapping hierarchies of race, class, and gender. New racist narratives about non-white men occupying middle-class occupations emerged in cities across the nation at the turn of the century. These stories helped to shore up white supremacy in the face of far-reaching changes to the nation's racialized economic order"--
Note:
Troubling gentility: middle-class mobility and the race-class nexus -- Fit only for a carrier's place: Black postal workers in Atlanta, 1889-1910 -- The policeman was a Mexican: Tejano lawmen in San Antonio, 1880-1910 -- Chinese blood in the Bureau: Chinese American immigration interpreters in San Francisco, 1896-1907
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Jewell, Joseph O., 1969- White man's work Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023] ISBN 978-1-4696-7350-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
;
Mittelstand
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
White supremacy
;
Geschichte 1880-1910
