The price of whiteness : Jews, race, and American identity / Eric L. Goldstein.
Eric Goldstein traces the Jews' encounter with American racial culture from the 1870s through to World War II. At first Jews clung to the notion that they were a distinct 'race'. Latterly Jews became fully vested as part of America's white mainstream and gave up describing themselves in racial terms.
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- ISBN: 9780691136318 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2008]
- Copyright: ©2006.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Part I: The Jewish "race" in America, 1875-1895. "Different blood flows in our veins": race and Jewish self-definition in late-nineteenth-century America -- Part II: Jews in black and white, 1896-1918. The unstable other: locating Jews in progressive era American racial discourse -- "Now is the time to show your true colors": the Jewish approach to African Americans -- "What are we?": Jewishness between race and religion -- Part III: Confronting Jewish difference, 1919-1935. Race and the "Jewish problem" in interwar America -- "A white race of another kind"? -- Wrestling with racial Jewishness -- Part IV: From old challenges to new, 1936-1950. World War II and the transformation of Jewish racial identity -- Epilogue: Jews, whiteness, and "tribalism" in multicultural America. |
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