Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA: A Historical Exploration of Identity

ISBN-13: 9780367277185 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 192 str.

Jana Sverdljuk; Terje Mikael Hasle Joranger; Erika K. Jackson

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Whiteness in Nordic Immigrants’ Identity Formation  Part 1: Whiteness as Epistemological Ignorance  1. Norwegian Migration and Displaced Indigenous Peoples: Toward an Understanding of Nordic Whiteness in the Land-taking  Part 2: Not Quite White: Painful Experiences of Sámi Immigrants  2. Racialization of the Sámi in Early Twentieth Century Migration Processes: Trans-Atlantic Continuities and Divergences  Part 3: White Immigrants and the Failure of Class Solidarity  3. "On Liberty and Equality": Race and Reconstruction among Scandinavian Immigrants, 1864-1868  Part 4: Nordic Superiority and the Derogatory Representations of Others  4. Atop a Hierarchy of Whiteness: Danish Americans as Portrayed by Danish Travel Writers in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century  5. Good Americans "Born of a Good People": Race, Whiteness, and Nationalism Among Norwegian Americans in the Pacific Northwest  Part 5: Challenging Intersections of Whiteness and Ethnicity  6. Ideal Immigrants? Ethnic Community Building among Norwegian-Americans in the Nineteenth Century  7. In the American Matrix: Norwegians in Chicago in the Nineteenth Century  Part 6: Nonconformity and Resistance to White Norms  8. Claiming Roots: Politics of Racial Ancestry in the Finnish-American Press during the 1938 New Sweden Tercentenary  9. The Nordic Mystique: Swedish Women as Sexualized "Other" in Postwar America  Conclusion: Nordic Slotting into the American Ethno-Racial Hierarchy