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

Michael Hoover hooverm at scc-fl.edu
Thu Jan 12 14:38:04 PST 2006



>>> 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 <<<<<>>>>>

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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