Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA

Jana Sverdljuk is Research Librarian and Curator of Migration Archives at the National Library of Norway. She has a PhD from the Centre for Gender Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Terje Mikael Hasle Joranger is the Director of the Norwegian Emigrant Museum and has a Ph.D. in history from the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo.Erika K. Jackson is an Associate Professor of History at Colorado Mesa University, USA, and the author of Scandinavians in Chicago: The Origins of White Privilege in Modern America.Peter Kivisto is the Richard A. Swanson Professor of Social Thought at Augustana College and Co-Director of the Laboratory on Transnationalism and Migration Processes at St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He has published 35 books, including works on radical Finnish immigrants in the United States, and more recent work focusing on theories of immigration, particularly transnationalism and multiculturalism. In 2013, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Turku after spending four years there as a Finland Distinguished Professor.

• Introduction: Whiteness in Nordic Immigrants’ Identity Formation Part 1: Whiteness as Epistemological Ignorance 1. Norwegian Migration and Displaced Indigenous Peoples: Toward an Understanding of Nordic Whiteness in the Land-taking Part 2: Not Quite White: Painful Experiences of Sámi Immigrants 2. Racialization of the Sámi in Early Twentieth Century Migration Processes: Trans-Atlantic Continuities and Divergences Part 3: White Immigrants and the Failure of Class Solidarity 3. "On Liberty and Equality": Race and Reconstruction among Scandinavian Immigrants, 1864-1868 Part 4: Nordic Superiority and the Derogatory Representations of Others 4. Atop a Hierarchy of Whiteness: Danish Americans as Portrayed by Danish Travel Writers in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 5. Good Americans "Born of a Good People": Race, Whiteness, and Nationalism Among Norwegian Americans in the Pacific Northwest Part 5: Challenging Intersections of Whiteness and Ethnicity 6. Ideal Immigrants? Ethnic Community Building among Norwegian-Americans in the Nineteenth Century 7. In the American Matrix: Norwegians in Chicago in the Nineteenth Century Part 6: Nonconformity and Resistance to White Norms 8. Claiming Roots: Politics of Racial Ancestry in the Finnish-American Press during the 1938 New Sweden Tercentenary 9. The Nordic Mystique: Swedish Women as Sexualized "Other" in Postwar America Conclusion: Nordic Slotting into the American Ethno-Racial Hierarchy