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      Dancing Down the Barricades

      Matthew Frye Jacobson

      A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr.

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      Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America

      Matthew Frye Jacobson

      In the 1970s, whites mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants in the New World. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual…

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      Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States

      Matthew Frye Jacobson

      Conventional wisdom would have us believe that every immigrant to the U.S. became American, by choice and with deliberate speed. In this compelling revisionist study, Jacobsen reveals tenacious attachments to…

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      Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

      Matthew Frye Jacobson

      America’s racial odyssey is the subject of this work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture.

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      The Historian’s Eye: Photography, History, and the American Present

      Matthew Frye Jacobson

      Between 2009 and 2014, as the US contemplated the election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to…

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      Dancing Down the Barricades

      Matthew Frye Jacobson

      A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr.

      Through the lens of Sammy…

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      Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917

      Matthew Frye Jacobson (Yale University)

      How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago.

      In Barbarian Virtues, Matthew Frye Jacobson offers a keenly argued and persuasive history of the close…

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      Odetta’s One Grain of Sand

      Dr. Matthew Frye Jacobson (Yale University, USA)

      When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become the next Marian Anderson -veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged…

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      What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America

      Matthew Frye Jacobson,Gaspar Gonzalez

      A reassessment of the landmark Cold War film, from Kennedy to Reagan to Halliburton.

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      Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States

      Matthew Frye Jacobson

      A scholarly study of the real roots of what Jacobson calls ‘America’s largely assimilated but ultimately unmeltable ethics.’ It’s a startling point of view for readers who are accustomed to…

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