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

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ISBN-10: 081352590X

ISBN-13: 9780813525907

Edition: 1998

Authors: Karen Brodkin

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This work assesses how race, class, and gender shape social identity in the US. Brodkin argues that changes in racial assignment have shaped the ways American Jews of different eras have constructed their own ethnoracial identities.
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Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 10/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
How Did Jews Become White Folks?
Race Making
Race, Gender, and Virtue in Civic Discourse
Not Quite White: Gender and Jewish Identity
A Whiteness of Our Own? Jewishness and Whiteness in the 1950s and 1960s
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index