[lbo-talk] A Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax

[Michael Hoover]

>>> dhenwood at panix.com 01/12/06 1:18 PM >>>
David Roediger has some good stuff in his latest, Working Towards 
Whiteness, about how "home" ownership was an important way for 
Eastern and Southern European immigrants in the early 20th century to 
become white. They often made themselves far worse off in material 
terms for the psychological payoff of racial promotion - and at the 
same time, cities became identified as dark and inferior.
Doug
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did above not become more pronounced in post-ww2 suburbs, where
second - sometimes - third generation folks moved out of urban ethnic
enclaves, process of becoming 'white' included anglicizing names -
for example, kowalski became kay...   mh

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