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African Americans in Atlanta
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Black middle class
California
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Chinese American middle class
Chinese Americans in San Francisco
Chinese immigration
comparative racial studies
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histories of race and racism
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Mexican American middle class
Mexican Americans in San Antonio
middle-class identity
race and manhood
race and middle-class employment
race and sexuality
race and social mobility
race and urbanization
race in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
race-making in the US
racial boundaries in the US
racial boundary blurring
racial boundary brightening
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Product details
- ISBN 9781469673493
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 2023
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
Joseph O. Jewell is professor of Black studies at the University of Illinois–Chicago.
