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Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America.

Publication: MELUS
Publication Date: 22-DEC-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America. Matthew Frye Jacobson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. 496 pages. $29.95 cloth.

In 1938, during a period of heightened nativist feeling in the US, the Slovenian-born writer Louis Adamic embarked upon an ambitious study of the situations of ethnic groups in American society. Adamic believed that the conditions of America's black and indigenous populations posed the nation's most serious problems, and yet he also held the more questionable opinion that these problems could not be solved until "old stock" Americans and more recent European immigrants recognized their mutual national belonging. As he explained in From Many Lands (1940), his ultimate goal in this project was to formulate "an intellectual-emotional synthesis of old and new America; of the Mayflower and the steerage; of the New England wilderness and the socio-economic jungle of the city slums and the factory system; of the Liberty Bell and...

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