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How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America (Paperback)
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How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America (Paperback)
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The fashion identities in the context of a wider conversation about
American nationhood, to whom it belongs and what belonging means.
Race and ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality are all staple
ingredients in this conversation. They are salient aspects of
social being from which economic practices, political policies, and
popular discourses create ""Americans."" Because all of these
facets of social being have such significant meaning on a national
scale, they also have major consequences for both individuals and
groups in terms of their success and well-being, as well as how
they perceive themselves socially and politically.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. Class and gender are key
elements of race-making in American history. Brodkin suggests that
this country's racial assignment of individuals and
groupsconstitutes an institutionalized system of occupational and
residential segregation, is a key element in misguided public
policy, and serves as a pernicious foundational principle in the
construction of nationhood. Alternatives available to non-white and
alien ""others"" have been either to whiten or to be consigned to
an inferior underclass unworthy of full citizenship. The American
ethnoracial map-who is assigned to each of these poles-is
continually changing, although the binary of black and white is
not. As a result, the structure within which Americans form their
ethnoracial, gender, and class identities is distressingly stable.
Brodkin questions the means by which Americans construct their
political identities and what is required to weaken the hold of
this governing myth.
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