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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.
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History of the Americas, Whites, history, British, america, Cultural pluralism, Frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.), Racism, West (u.s.), history, United states, race relations, British Americans, Race relations, Frontier and pioneer life, Race identity, Whites, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), HistoryShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Making the White Man's West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West
2019, University Press of Colorado
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Making the White Man's West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West
2016, University Press of Colorado
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Making the White Man's West
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