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

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How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America - Brodkin, Karen
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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 ...

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How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America 1998, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813525907

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