Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA: A Historical Exploration of Identity

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
		Norwegian romantic nationalism and the construction of the “racial” self
		“White men” and the racial “othering” of others
		The Scandinavian racial self and Norwegian superiority
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
			Primary sources, archival
			Primary sources, published
			Secondary sources
Part 5 Challenging intersections of whiteness and ethnicity
	Chapter 6 Ideal immigrants? Ethnic community building among Norwegian Americans in the nineteenth century
		Introduction
		Religion and ethnicity
		The centrality of kinship and land
		Portrayals in dime magazines and guidebooks
		A homemaking mythology
		White identity: Hilton and Hamsun
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 7 In the American matrix: Norwegians in Chicago in the nineteenth century
		Introduction
		Norwegians in a multi-ethnic urban environment
		Conclusion
		References
Part 6 Nonconformity and resistance to white norms
	Chapter 8 Claiming roots: Politics of racial ancestry in the Finnish-American press during the 1938 New Sweden Tercentenary
		Introduction
		The Delaware Tercentenary celebration in 1938
		Nordic or Finnish ancestry?
		Frontier imagery
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 9 The Nordic mystique: Swedish women as sexualized “other” in postwar America
		Introduction
		Nordic whiteness and sexuality in the pre- and postwar eras
		The dawn of Swedish sin in Playboy during the late 1950s
		The 1960s heyday of “Swedish sin”
		Conclusions
		References
			Scholarly sources
			Newspaper and magazine articles
			Film
Conclusion: Nordic slotting into the American ethno-racial hierarchy
	References
Index