The performance of race as a colonial project

Description:

This master's thesis proposes a theory of an expansion of the definition of "whiteness" out of the diversity of nineteenth-century European immigration based on an idea of race as performative.

subjects: Race,  Education,  Americanization,  Minorities,  Whiteness,  Immigration

Places: New York (State),  New York City

Times: ~ 1880 - 1910