Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. When Scandinavians Were Swarthy: Migration and the Origins of “Scandinavian Stock” in Chicago
2. Vikings and Dumb Blondes: The Construction of American Discourse on Nordic and Scandinavian White
3. The “Swedish Maid”: “Strong” Nordic Workers in an Elite American World
4. Scandinavians Behaving Badly: Vice, Representation, and Reform in Early-Twentieth-Century Chicago
5. World War I, Nativist Rhetoric, and the “White Man Par Excellence”
6. The New Nordic Man of the 1920s
Conclusion: The Contemporary Importance of Nordic Whiteness
Notes
Index