Price of Whiteness Jews, Race, and American Identity

Name: Price of Whiteness Jews, Race, and American Identity
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ISBN: 9780691136318

ISBN-10: 0691136319

ISBN-13: 9780691136318

Edition: 2006

Authors: Eric L. Goldstein

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What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white?The Price of Whitenessdocuments the uneasy place Jews have held in America's racial culture since the late nineteenth century. The book traces Jews' often tumultuous encounter with race from the 1870s through World War II, when they became vested as part of America's white mainstream and abandoned the practice of describing themselves in racial terms. American Jewish history is often told as a story of quick and successful adaptation, but Goldstein demonstrates how the process of identifying as white Americans was an ambivalent one, filled with hard choices and conflicting emotions for Jewish…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.13" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Jewish "Race" in America, 1875-1895



"Different Blood Flows in Our Veins": Race and Jewish Self-Definition in Late-Nineteenth-Century America



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



Confronting Jewish Difference, 1919-1935



Race and the "Jewish Problem" in Interwar America



"A White Race of Another Kind"?



Wrestling with Racial Jewishness



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


Notes


Index