Title Nordic whiteness and migration to the USA : a historical exploration of identity / edited by Jana Sverdljuk, Terje Mikael Hasle Joranger, Erika K. Jackson and Peter Kivisto

Published London : Routledge, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Series Studies in Migration and Diaspora Ser Studies in Migration and Diaspora Ser Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Series editor's preface -- Introduction: Whiteness in Nordic immigrants' identity formation -- Recent developments towards whiteness studies -- Exposing colour-blind myths about Nordic immigration -- Whiteness as a standpoint and institutionalised privilege -- Arriving to a multi-ethnic republic -- Whiteness as epistemological ignorance -- Not quite white: painful experiences of Sámi immigrants -- White immigrants and the failure of class solidarity Nordic superiority and the derogatory representation of others -- Challenging intersections of whiteness and ethnicity -- Nonconformity and resistance to white norms -- Notes -- References -- Part 1 Whiteness as epistemological ignorance -- Chapter 1 Norwegian migration and displaced indigenous peoples: Toward an understanding of Nordic whiteness in the land-taking -- Introduction -- Wisconsin in the period of removal and migration (1830s-1850s) -- Minnesota in the era of wars, exile, and secondary migrations (1860s and 1870s) -- Centennial celebrations (1914 and 1925): narrating whiteness Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Part 2 Not quite white: Painful experiences of Sámi immigrants -- Chapter 2 Racialization of the Sámi in early twentieth-century migration processes: Trans-atlantic continuities and divergences -- Introduction -- Sámi migration and contemporary identity in North America -- Race, ethnicity, class, and gender in migration processes -- Albertine Josefine Svendsen (1886-1984) -- Bereth (Bertha) Kristine Susanne Larsdatter (1881-1954) -- Karen Marie Nilsdatter (1874-1956) Kirsten/Risten Nilsdatter Bals (1879-?) Luhkkár-Ánne/Anna Mortensdatter Nilima (1866-1949) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part 3 White immigrants and the failure of class solidarity -- Chapter 3 "On liberty and equality": Race and Reconstruction among Scandinavian immigrants, 1864-1868 -- Introduction -- Liberty and equality -- Limits to the military melting pot -- Retreat from Reconstruction -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part 4 Nordic superiority and the derogatory representations of others Chapter 4 Atop a hierarchy of whiteness: Danish Americans as portrayed by Danish travel writers in the second half of the nineteenth century -- Introduction -- The travel writers -- Danish-American city dwellers -- Rural Danish Americans -- The lower end of the scale -- In-between groups -- Assimilation and pluralism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Good Americans "born of a good people": Race, whiteness, and nationalism among Norwegian Americans in the Pacific Northwest -- Introduction -- Whiteness and the construction of the racial self Summary This volume explores the complex and contradictory ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness has influenced identities, self-perceptions and the process of integration of Nordic immigrants into multicultural and racially segregated American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In deploying central insights from whiteness studies, postcolonial feminist and intersectionality theories, it shows that Nordic immigrants - Danes, Swedes, Finns, Norwegians and Smi - contributed to and challenged American racism and white identity. A diverse group of immigrants, they could proclaim themselves hyper-white' and better citizens than anybody else', including Anglo-Saxons, thus taking for granted the racial bias of American citizenship and ownership rights, yet there were also various, unexpected intersections of whiteness with ethnicity, regional belonging, gender, sexuality, and political views. Nordic whiteness', then, was not a monolithic notion in the USA and could be challenged by other identities, which could even turn white Nordic immigrants into marginalised figures. A fascinating study of whiteness and identity among white migrants in the USA, Nordic Whiteness will appeal to scholars of sociology, history and anthropology with interests in Scandinavian studies, migration and diaspora studies and American studies Subject Scandinavian Americans -- Race identity -- United States -- History -- 19th century Scandinavian Americans -- Race identity -- United States -- History -- 20th century White people -- Race identity -- United States -- History -- 19th century White people -- Race identity -- United States -- History -- 20th century Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century Scandinavian Americans -- United States -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 19th century Scandinavian Americans -- United States -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. Emigration and immigration Ethnic relations Racism White people -- Race identity SUBJECT Scandinavia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century Scandinavia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century Subject Scandinavia United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Sverdljuk, Jana, editor Joranger, Terje Mikael Hasle, editor Jackson, Erika K., 1978- editor. Kivisto, Peter, 1948- editor. ISBN 9781000164879 100016487X 9781000164916 9781000164893 9780429297472 0429297475 9780429297472 1000164918 9781000164916 1000164896 9781000164893

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