The price of whiteness : Jews, race, and American identity
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- ISBN: 9780691136318 (pbk.)
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xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
print - 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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