Gerd Korman is an American historian, Professor emeritus at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. In his years of teaching, in his books and articles, he has made original contributions in the field of Euro-American history; it now includes the Holocaust.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionPart One: Republican Ethnicking1. Veritas2. Races3. Promised Lands by Religion4. Ethnicking5. Profiling6. Peoplehood CitizensPart Two: Republican Discipline7. Safeguarding the Public Square8. Screening and Quarantines9. At Work in Danzig10. Nationalizing Secular Peoplehoods11. Battling Citizens12. Bending HierarchiesPart Three: Last Words13. Pasts in US14. US in the Public Square15. Ethnicking in Plain SightEpilogue

“Korman... has written an important and timely history focusing primarily on Black and Jewish Americans, as well as other ethnic groups, as they found themselves isolated from the 'public square' of American life over a century. ... Recommended.”— J. Fischel, emeritus, Millersville University, CHOICE (September 2023 Vol. 61 No. 1)

Gerd Korman is an American historian, Professor emeritus at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. In his years of teaching, in his books and articles, he has made original contributions in the field of Euro-American history; it now includes the Holocaust.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionPart One: Republican Ethnicking1. Veritas2. Races3. Promised Lands by Religion4. Ethnicking5. Profiling6. Peoplehood CitizensPart Two: Republican Discipline7. Safeguarding the Public Square8. Screening and Quarantines9. At Work in Danzig10. Nationalizing Secular Peoplehoods11. Battling Citizens12. Bending HierarchiesPart Three: Last Words13. Pasts in US14. US in the Public Square15. Ethnicking in Plain SightEpilogue

“Korman... has written an important and timely history focusing primarily on Black and Jewish Americans, as well as other ethnic groups, as they found themselves isolated from the 'public square' of American life over a century. ... Recommended.”— J. Fischel, emeritus, Millersville University, CHOICE (September 2023 Vol. 61 No. 1)

Gerd Korman is an American historian, Professor emeritus at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. In his years of teaching, in his books and articles, he has made original contributions in the field of Euro-American history; it now includes the Holocaust.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionPart One: Republican Ethnicking1. Veritas2. Races3. Promised Lands by Religion4. Ethnicking5. Profiling6. Peoplehood CitizensPart Two: Republican Discipline7. Safeguarding the Public Square8. Screening and Quarantines9. At Work in Danzig10. Nationalizing Secular Peoplehoods11. Battling Citizens12. Bending HierarchiesPart Three: Last Words13. Pasts in US14. US in the Public Square15. Ethnicking in Plain SightEpilogue

“Korman... has written an important and timely history focusing primarily on Black and Jewish Americans, as well as other ethnic groups, as they found themselves isolated from the 'public square' of American life over a century. ... Recommended.”— J. Fischel, emeritus, Millersville University, CHOICE (September 2023 Vol. 61 No. 1)