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oapen-20.500.12657-375082023-06-05T13:07:50Z Making the White Man's West Pierce, Jason E. british americans west (u.s.) cultural pluralism race identity history racism whites frontier and pioneer life race relations bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a “dumping ground” for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a “refuge for real whites.” The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of white racial identity in the West, Making the White Man’s West shows how these two visions of the West shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. 2016-03-09 23:55 2019-12-05 13:55:54 2020-04-01T14:19:45Z 2020-04-01T14:19:45Z 2016 book 650008 604532 9781607325635 9781607323952 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37508 eng application/pdf n/a 604532.pdf http://www.upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/2744-making-the-white-man-s-west University Press of Colorado 10.26530/OAPEN_604532 103443 10.26530/OAPEN_604532 70e7c833-622a-43ce-9f6f-f7afb0c104e9 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781607325635 9781607323952 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 312 Boulder 103443 KU Round 2 650008 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a “dumping ground” for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a “refuge for real whites.” The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of white racial identity in the West, Making the White Man’s West shows how these two visions of the West shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
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