Jacobson, Matthew Frye

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JACOBSON, Matthew Frye

JACOBSON, Matthew Frye. American, b. 1958. Genres: History. Career: State University of New York at Stony Brook, assistant professor of history, 1992-95; Yale University, New Haven, CT, assistant professor of history, 1995-, associate professor of American studies, history, and African American Studies, currently. Publications: Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1995; Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race, 1998. Address: 15 W 81st St No. 8-C, New York, NY 10024, U.S.A.