Matthew Frye Jacobson

Matthew Frye Jacobson is a historian whose research concerns politics and race in all eras of American history. He is the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies & History and a professor of African American Studies at Yale University.^[1]​ From 2012–2013 he was president of the American Studies Association.^[2]​

Jacobson earned his doctorate in 1992 from Brown University, in American Civilization.^[3]​

Works[]

• Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (1995)^[4]​
• Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998)^[5]​^[6]​^[7]​^[8]​
• Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000)^[9]​^[10]​
• Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America (2005)^[11]​^[12]​
• What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America (with Gaspar González, 2006)^[13]​^[14]​^[15]​

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