Karen Brodkin

How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The history of Jews in the United States is one of racial change that provides useful insights on race in America. Prevailing classifications have sometimes assigned Jews to the white race and at other times have created an off-white racial designation for them. Those changes in racial assignment have shaped the ways American Jews of different eras have constructed their ethnoracial identities. Brodkin illustrates these changes through an analysis of her own family's multi-generational experience. She shows how Jews experience a kind of double vision that comes from racial middleness: on the one hand, marginality with regard to whiteness; on the other, whiteness and belonging with regard to blackness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780813525907
• ISBN-10: 081352590X
• Artikelnr.: 21860501

Autorenporträt

Brodkin, Karen

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. How Did Jews Become White Folks? 
2. Race Making
3. Race, Gender, and Virtue in Civic Discourse
4. Not Quite White: Gender and Jewish Identity
5. A Whiteness of Our Own? Jewishness and Whiteness in the 1950s and 1960s
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index