Matthew Frye Jacobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 90196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Frye Jacobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew Frye |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobson |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBSON M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 234 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi's sprawling, epic treatment of racist ideas in America is at once too ambitious and not sufficiently ambitious. Framed according to a novel design by which five historical figures-Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, William Lloyd Garrison, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Angela Davis-steward readers across the arc of time, the book is breathtaking in its capaciousness. Setting out from Puritan settlements in North America in 1635 (from Aristote…
Where We Stand: US Empire at Street Level and in the Archive
Where We Stand" takes the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease's Cultures of United States Imperialism as an occasion to survey the last forty years in both the lived experience of and the growing scholarship on US Empire. Capping a generation of critique and inquiry sparked by the Vietnam War, Cultures of US Imperialism is a poignant benchmark in the interdisciplinary study of US Empire, and also in the recogni…
Americanists at Work and at Play
Americanists at Work and at Play Matthew Frye Jacobson (bio) A New Literary History of America. Edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 1095 pages. $49.95 (cloth). A New Literary History of America inherited its title from a series at Harvard University Press that already included A New History of German Literature and A New History of French Literature. This may be a small misfortune: among Am…
Legitimization and the discursive (re)production of social domination
This research focuses on the discourses and strategies used by British political representatives in justifying continued ‘support’ for the Israeli occupation government in Palestine. As a member of the liberally identified ‘Western’ alliance, Britain, must justify its invested interests in the region, given Israel’s internationally criticized occupation practices. Between the months of May through July 2004 seven interviews were conducted with Me…
Legitimizacion y (re)produción discursiva de la dominación social
This research focuses on the discourses and strategies used by British political representatives in justifying continued ‘support’ for the Israeli occupation government in Palestine. As a member of the liberally identified ‘Western’ alliance, Britain, must justify its invested interests in the region, given Israel’s internationally criticized occupation practices. Between the months of May through July 2004 seven interviews were conducted with Me…
What Have They Built You to Do: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America
More "Trans-," Less "National
Research Article| July 01 2006 More "Trans-," Less "National" Matthew Frye Jacobson Matthew Frye Jacobson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 25 (4): 74–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501744 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Matthew Frye Jacobson; More "Trans-," Less "National". Journal of American Ethnic History 1 Janua…
Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America
In the 1970s, whites mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants in the New World. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Jacobson establishes a broader white social and political consensus responding to the political language of the Civil Rights movement.
Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
Journal Article Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876–1917. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. (New York: Hill & Wang, 2000. xii, 324 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-8090-2808-5. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8090-1628-1.) Get access Edward P. Crapol Edward P. Crapol College of William and MaryWilliamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Post-Orientalism
Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East. By Melani McAlister. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2001. 352 pages. $50.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Melani McAlister worked for several years on her ingenious analysis of U.S. engagement with the Middle East, Epic Encounters, before the book finally made its appearance in bookstores on, oh, about September 11. It is hard to gauge how a world so suddenly al…
New York before Chinatown
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 83
Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy
Rituals of Race: American Public Culture and the Search for Racial Democracy
Journal Article Rituals of Race: American Public Culture and the Search for Racial Democracy. By Alessandra Lorini. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. xxii, 305 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8139-1870-7. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 08139-1871-5.) Get access Matthew Frye Jacobson Matthew Frye Jacobson Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
Becoming caucasian: Vicissitudes of whiteness in american politics and culture
We perceive “race” as a feature of the natural landscape, fixed in the unchanging realities of biology, but racial categories change markedly in response to shifting political, economic, and social circumstances across historical time. In the United States conceptions of “race” function as idioms of power, mediating the conflicting imperatives of a capitalist economy and a porous, democratic political culture: where labor demands generate demogra…
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics
The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America
Journal Article The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America. Ed. by Arthur Gribben. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. xii, 268 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 1-55849-172-4. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 1-55849-173-2.) Get access Matthew Frye Jacobson Matthew Frye Jacobson Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2…
Tempest-Tost: Race, Immigration, and the Dilemmas of Diversity
Book Review| October 01 1999 Tempest-Tost: Race, Immigration, and the Dilemmas of Diversity Tempest-Tost: Race, Immigration, and the Dilemmas of Diversity, Peter I. Rose. Matthew Frye Jacobson Matthew Frye Jacobson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (1999) 19 (1): 79–80. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502511 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Si…
Imperial Amnesia: Teddy Roosevelt, the Philippines, and the Modern Art of Forgetting
Research Article| January 01 1999 Imperial Amnesia: Teddy Roosevelt, the Philippines, and the Modern Art of Forgetting Matthew Frye Jacobson Matthew Frye Jacobson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (73): 117–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1999-73-117 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Matthew Frye Jacobson; Imperial Amn…
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race argues that the concept of "whiteness" has been historically constructed and contested. Jacobson traces the shifting boundaries of whiteness in the United States from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries, demonstrating how various European immigrant groups-including the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Slavs-were initially perceived as racially distinct from Anglo-Saxon Prot…
Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States
Twas only an Irishman's Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920
Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States
Journal Article Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. xiv, 321 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-83185-3.) Get access Mark Wyman Mark Wyman Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pag…
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race argues that the concept of "whiteness" has been historically constructed and contested. Jacobson traces the shifting boundaries of whiteness in the United States from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries, demonstrating how various European immigrant groups-including the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Slavs-were initially perceived as racially distinct from Anglo-Saxon Prot…
Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America
In the 1970s, whites mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants in the New World. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Jacobson establishes a broader white social and political consensus responding to the political language of the Civil Rights movement.
The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America
Journal Article The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America. Ed. by Arthur Gribben. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. xii, 268 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 1-55849-172-4. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 1-55849-173-2.) Get access Matthew Frye Jacobson Matthew Frye Jacobson Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2…
Where We Stand: US Empire at Street Level and in the Archive
Where We Stand" takes the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease's Cultures of United States Imperialism as an occasion to survey the last forty years in both the lived experience of and the growing scholarship on US Empire. Capping a generation of critique and inquiry sparked by the Vietnam War, Cultures of US Imperialism is a poignant benchmark in the interdisciplinary study of US Empire, and also in the recogni…
Becoming caucasian: Vicissitudes of whiteness in american politics and culture
We perceive “race” as a feature of the natural landscape, fixed in the unchanging realities of biology, but racial categories change markedly in response to shifting political, economic, and social circumstances across historical time. In the United States conceptions of “race” function as idioms of power, mediating the conflicting imperatives of a capitalist economy and a porous, democratic political culture: where labor demands generate demogra…
More "Trans-," Less "National
Research Article| July 01 2006 More "Trans-," Less "National" Matthew Frye Jacobson Matthew Frye Jacobson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 25 (4): 74–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501744 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Matthew Frye Jacobson; More "Trans-," Less "National". Journal of American Ethnic History 1 Janua…
Twas only an Irishman's Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920
Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States
Journal Article Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. xiv, 321 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-83185-3.) Get access Mark Wyman Mark Wyman Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pag…
Post-Orientalism
Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East. By Melani McAlister. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2001. 352 pages. $50.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Melani McAlister worked for several years on her ingenious analysis of U.S. engagement with the Middle East, Epic Encounters, before the book finally made its appearance in bookstores on, oh, about September 11. It is hard to gauge how a world so suddenly al…
Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States
Journal Article Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. xiv, 321 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-83185-3.) Get access Mark Wyman Mark Wyman Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pag…
Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States
Twas only an Irishman's Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920
Tempest-Tost: Race, Immigration, and the Dilemmas of Diversity
Book Review| October 01 1999 Tempest-Tost: Race, Immigration, and the Dilemmas of Diversity Tempest-Tost: Race, Immigration, and the Dilemmas of Diversity, Peter I. Rose. Matthew Frye Jacobson Matthew Frye Jacobson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (1999) 19 (1): 79–80. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502511 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Si…
Imperial Amnesia: Teddy Roosevelt, the Philippines, and the Modern Art of Forgetting
Research Article| January 01 1999 Imperial Amnesia: Teddy Roosevelt, the Philippines, and the Modern Art of Forgetting Matthew Frye Jacobson Matthew Frye Jacobson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (73): 117–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1999-73-117 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Matthew Frye Jacobson; Imperial Amn…
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race argues that the concept of "whiteness" has been historically constructed and contested. Jacobson traces the shifting boundaries of whiteness in the United States from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries, demonstrating how various European immigrant groups-including the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Slavs-were initially perceived as racially distinct from Anglo-Saxon Prot…
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics
The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America
Journal Article The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America. Ed. by Arthur Gribben. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. xii, 268 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 1-55849-172-4. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 1-55849-173-2.) Get access Matthew Frye Jacobson Matthew Frye Jacobson Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2…
Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy
Rituals of Race: American Public Culture and the Search for Racial Democracy
Journal Article Rituals of Race: American Public Culture and the Search for Racial Democracy. By Alessandra Lorini. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. xxii, 305 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8139-1870-7. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 08139-1871-5.) Get access Matthew Frye Jacobson Matthew Frye Jacobson Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
Becoming caucasian: Vicissitudes of whiteness in american politics and culture
We perceive “race” as a feature of the natural landscape, fixed in the unchanging realities of biology, but racial categories change markedly in response to shifting political, economic, and social circumstances across historical time. In the United States conceptions of “race” function as idioms of power, mediating the conflicting imperatives of a capitalist economy and a porous, democratic political culture: where labor demands generate demogra…
Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
Journal Article Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876–1917. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. (New York: Hill & Wang, 2000. xii, 324 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-8090-2808-5. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8090-1628-1.) Get access Edward P. Crapol Edward P. Crapol College of William and MaryWilliamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Post-Orientalism
Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East. By Melani McAlister. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2001. 352 pages. $50.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Melani McAlister worked for several years on her ingenious analysis of U.S. engagement with the Middle East, Epic Encounters, before the book finally made its appearance in bookstores on, oh, about September 11. It is hard to gauge how a world so suddenly al…
New York before Chinatown
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 83
What Have They Built You to Do: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America
More "Trans-," Less "National
Research Article| July 01 2006 More "Trans-," Less "National" Matthew Frye Jacobson Matthew Frye Jacobson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 25 (4): 74–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501744 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Matthew Frye Jacobson; More "Trans-," Less "National". Journal of American Ethnic History 1 Janua…
Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America
In the 1970s, whites mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants in the New World. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Jacobson establishes a broader white social and political consensus responding to the political language of the Civil Rights movement.
Legitimization and the discursive (re)production of social domination
This research focuses on the discourses and strategies used by British political representatives in justifying continued ‘support’ for the Israeli occupation government in Palestine. As a member of the liberally identified ‘Western’ alliance, Britain, must justify its invested interests in the region, given Israel’s internationally criticized occupation practices. Between the months of May through July 2004 seven interviews were conducted with Me…
Legitimizacion y (re)produción discursiva de la dominación social
This research focuses on the discourses and strategies used by British political representatives in justifying continued ‘support’ for the Israeli occupation government in Palestine. As a member of the liberally identified ‘Western’ alliance, Britain, must justify its invested interests in the region, given Israel’s internationally criticized occupation practices. Between the months of May through July 2004 seven interviews were conducted with Me…
Americanists at Work and at Play
Americanists at Work and at Play Matthew Frye Jacobson (bio) A New Literary History of America. Edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 1095 pages. $49.95 (cloth). A New Literary History of America inherited its title from a series at Harvard University Press that already included A New History of German Literature and A New History of French Literature. This may be a small misfortune: among Am…
Where We Stand: US Empire at Street Level and in the Archive
Where We Stand" takes the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease's Cultures of United States Imperialism as an occasion to survey the last forty years in both the lived experience of and the growing scholarship on US Empire. Capping a generation of critique and inquiry sparked by the Vietnam War, Cultures of US Imperialism is a poignant benchmark in the interdisciplinary study of US Empire, and also in the recogni…
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi's sprawling, epic treatment of racist ideas in America is at once too ambitious and not sufficiently ambitious. Framed according to a novel design by which five historical figures-Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, William Lloyd Garrison, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Angela Davis-steward readers across the arc of time, the book is breathtaking in its capaciousness. Setting out from Puritan settlements in North America in 1635 (from Aristote…
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