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]

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
  1. "Matthew Jacobson named the William Robertson Coe Professor", YaleNews, November 13, 2012, retrieved April 5, 2017
  2. The Role of President, American Studies Association, retrieved April 5, 2017
  3. Matthew Jacobson, Yale University Department of History, retrieved April 5, 2017
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. White, John (November 26, 1999), "Are Caucasians made or born? Whiteness of a Different Color", Times Higher Education
  8. 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
  9. "Review of Barbarian Virtues", Kirkus Reviews, April 1, 2000
  10. "Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917", Nonfiction Book Review, Publishers Weekly, April 3, 2000
  11. 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
  12. Strub, Whitney (March 24, 2006), "Review of Roots Too", PopMatters
  13. 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
  14. 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, doi:10.2307/25095098, JSTOR 25095098
  15. 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
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