"History" . . . . . "How America's immigrants became white" . . . "[This book] tells in detail how the \"new immigrants\" from Eastern and Southern Europe who poured into the country in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries went from being an \"in-between\" racial group to one that was unequivocally white. [In the book, he] insists on the power of words without losing sight of the messiness of everyday life - a complexity that ever-changing terminologies of race and ethnicity have failed to simplify. [He also offers an] investigation of that historical zone where institutions, ideas, and street-level experiences meet and give form to one another. -Dust jacket." . . . . . . . . . . . "Working toward Whiteness how America's immigrants became White : the strange journey from Ellis Island to the suburbs" . "United States" . . . .