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An assessment of how race, class, and gender shape social identity in the United States. The author 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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"An insightful interpretation of the complexities of Jewish ethnoracial identity, in the context of a multicultural America stratified by gender, race and class that is both theoretically rich and deeply personal. By interrogating how Jews were integrated within the framework of whiteness. Brodkin illustrates just how difficult it may be to deracialize American society and culture." -- Manning Marable

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

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/1998
      ISBN13: 9780813525907, 978-0813525907
      ISBN10: 081352590X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An assessment of how race, class, and gender shape social identity in the United States. The author argues that changes in racial assignment have shaped the ways American Jews of different eras have constructed their own ethnoracial identities.

      Trade Review
      "An insightful interpretation of the complexities of Jewish ethnoracial identity, in the context of a multicultural America stratified by gender, race and class that is both theoretically rich and deeply personal. By interrogating how Jews were integrated within the framework of whiteness. Brodkin illustrates just how difficult it may be to deracialize American society and culture." -- Manning Marable

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

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