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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Matthew Pratt Guterl. The Color of Race in America 1900–1940. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2001. Pp. ix, 234. $39.95.

With this book, Matthew Pratt Guterl establishes himself as a keen interpreter of race and what that concept has meant in the United States. Utilizing the biographies of four historical figures representing three ethno/racial groups, Guterl provides a beautifully crafted analysis of how race has been constructed and reconstructed for purposes of communal identity, political mobilization, and social stratification in the early part of the last century. 1

The story that Guterl tells through the rendering of racial self-classification among Irish Americans, African Americans, and white Anglos is by now familiar. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, race meant different things at different times, and racial categorization was both complicated and hotly contested. Ultimately, though, by the time of World War II, the nation settled on a definition of race based primarily on skin color, a definition that provided the full citizenship afforded by "whiteness" for all those of European extraction and something rather less than that for African Americans. . . .

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