LEADER 03812oam 2200529 450 001 9910765762903321 005 20230808192032.0 010 $a9781607325635 (ebook) 010 $z9781607323952 (hardback) 035 $a(CKB)3710000000613058 035 $a(OCoLC)935695789 035 $a(ScCtBLL)c13b6b4a-7da7-4f83-b327-edb213ccb7f5 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000613058 100 $a20160314d2016 fu 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#---uuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMaking the white man's West $ewhiteness and the creation of the American West /$fJason E. Pierce 210 1$aBoulder, Col. :$cUniversity Press of Colorado,$d[2016] 215 $a1 online resource (xxv, 296 pages) $cillustrations; digital, PDF file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: 9781607323952 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Whiteness and the Making of the American West -- Part I. From Dumping Ground to Refuge : Imagining the White Man's West, 1803-1924 -- "For Its Incorporation into Our Union" : The Louisiana Territory and the Conundrum of Western Expansion -- A Climate of Failure or One "Unrivaled, Perhaps, in the World?" -- "The Ablest and Most Valuable Fly Rapidly Westward" : Climate, Racial Vigor and the Advancement of the West, 1860-1900 -- Indians not Immigrants : Charles Fletcher Lummis, Frank Bird Linderman and the Complexities of Race and Ethnicity in America -- Part II. Creating and Defending the White Man's West -- The Politics of Whiteness and Western Expansion -- "Our Climate and Soil is Completely Adapted to their Customs" : Whiteness, Railroad Promotion and the Settlement of the Great Plains -- Unwelcome Saints : Whiteness, Mormons, and the Limits of Success -- Violence in Defense of the White Man's West -- Conclusion: The Limits and Limitations of Whiteness. 330 2 $aIn the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a ?dumping ground? for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a ?refuge for real whites.? The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of white racial identity in the West, Making the White Man?s West shows how these two visions of the West shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today. 606 $aWhites$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 606 $aWhites$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 606 $aBritish Americans$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 606 $aRacism$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 606 $aCultural pluralism$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zWest (U.S.) 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xRace relations$xHistory 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aWhites$xHistory. 615 0$aWhites$xHistory. 615 0$aBritish Americans$xHistory. 615 0$aRacism$xHistory. 615 0$aCultural pluralism$xHistory. 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life 676 $a305.800978 700 $aPierce$b Jason$g(Jason Eric),$0927221 801 2$bUkMaJRU 912 $a9910765762903321 996 $aMaking the white man's West$92083334 997 $aUNINA