Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 When Scandinavians Were Swarthy: Migration and the Origins of "Scandinavian Stock" in Chicago; 2 Vikings and Dumb Blondes: The Construction of American Discourse on Nordic and Scandinavian Whiteness; 3 The "Swedish Maid": "Strong" Nordic Workers in an Elite American World; 4 Scandinavians Behaving Badly: Vice, Representation, and Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Chicago; 5 World War I, Nativist Rhetoric, and the "White Man Par Excellence"; 6 The New Nordic Man of the 1920s
Conclusion: The Contemporary Importance of Nordic WhitenessNotes; Index
