Matthew Frye Jacobson
Appearance
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]
References
- ^ "Matthew Jacobson named the William Robertson Coe Professor", YaleNews, November 13, 2012, retrieved April 5, 2017
- ^ The Role of President, American Studies Association, retrieved April 5, 2017
- ^ Matthew Jacobson, Yale University Department of History, retrieved April 5, 2017
- ^ Kirsch, Jonathan (March 29, 1995), "In America, but Longing for Home: Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish and Jewish Immigrants in the United States by Matthew Frye Jacobson", Book Review / Nonfiction, Los Angeles Times
- ^ Anthes, Louis C. (April 1999), "Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and All-Around:Race, Immigration, and the Politics of Color in American History", H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
- ^ Spickard, Paul (January 2001), "Review: Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson", Social History, 26 (1): 114–117, JSTOR 4286741
- ^ White, John (November 26, 1999), "Are Caucasians made or born? Whiteness of a Different Color", Times Higher Education
- ^ Tunc, Tanfer Emin (June 2008), "Recapitulating the historiographical contributions of Matthew Frye Jacobson's Whiteness of a Different Color and Gail Bederman's Manliness and Civilization", Rethinking History, 12 (2): 281–288, doi:10.1080/13642520802002372
- ^ "Review of Barbarian Virtues", Kirkus Reviews, April 1, 2000
- ^ "Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917", Nonfiction Book Review, Publishers Weekly, April 3, 2000
- ^ Hirschman, Charles (July 2007), "Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America By Matthew Frye Jacobson" (PDF), Book Review, American Journal of Sociology, 113 (1): 274–276, doi:10.1086/520896, JSTOR 10.1086/520896
- ^ Strub, Whitney (March 24, 2006), "Review of Roots Too", PopMatters
- ^ Brown, Joseph F. (December 2007), "What Have They Built You To Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America", The Journal of Popular Culture, 40 (6): 1074–1076, doi:10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00486_1.x
- ^ Carruthers, Susan (September 2007), "What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America. By Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar Gonzalez", Journal of American History, 94 (2): 643–643, doi:10.2307/25095098, JSTOR 25095098
- ^ Faucette, Brian (November 2009), "What Have They Built You To Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America", Journal of Popular Film and Television, 37 (3): 147, doi:10.1080/01956050903218166