Description
Product ID: | 9780367535469 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Studies in Migration and Diaspora |
Title: | Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA |
Subtitle: | A Historical Exploration of Identity |
Authors: | Author: Erika Jackson, Terje Mikael Hasle Joranger, Peter Kivisto, Jana Sverdljuk |
Page Count: | 208 |
Subjects: | European history, European history, History, History, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, Ethnic studies, Sociology, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Social & cultural history, Migration, immigration & emigration, Ethnic studies, Sociology, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Norway, USA |
Description: | 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. This volume explores the complex and contradictory ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness has influenced identities, self-perceptions and the process of integration of Nordic immigrants into multicultural and racially segregated American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In deploying central insights from whiteness studies, postcolonial feminist and intersectionality theories, it shows that Nordic immigrants - Danes, Swedes, Finns, Norwegians and Sámi - contributed to and challenged American racism and white identity. A diverse group of immigrants, they could proclaim themselves ‘hyper-white’ and ‘better citizens than anybody else’, including Anglo-Saxons, thus taking for granted the racial bias of American citizenship and ownership rights, yet there were also various, unexpected intersections of whiteness with ethnicity, regional belonging, gender, sexuality, and political views. ‘Nordic whiteness’, then, was not a monolithic notion in the USA and could be challenged by other identities, which could even turn white Nordic immigrants into marginalised figures. A fascinating study of whiteness and identity among white migrants in the USA, Nordic Whiteness will appeal to scholars of sociology, history and anthropology with interests in Scandinavian studies, migration and diaspora studies and American studies. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-04-29 |