ISBN:
9781469673486
,
9781469673493
Language:
English
Pages:
pages cm
DDC:
305.550973
Keywords:
Middle class
;
Social mobility
;
Minorities Social conditions
;
White supremacy (Social structure)
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
;
Ethnische Gruppen und multikulturelle Studien
;
Gender Studies: Männer und Jungen
;
Gender studies: men
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HISTORY / Social History
;
Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
;
Political science & theory
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Politikwissenschaft
;
SOC068000
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
;
Social & cultural history
;
Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
;
United States Race relations 20th century
;
History
;
United States Race relations 19th century
;
History
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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