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]

His books include:

• 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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