Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson explains that the debate over immigration is really two debates--one focusing on economics and the other on civic belonging. Professor Jacobson adds that what political figures like Pet...
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson explains that perceptions of race vary over time. "What are now called the 'white ethnics,' we see as a just kind of minor distinctions of basic kind of whiteness," Professor Jacobson n...