Bibliograph

How Jews became white folks and what that says about race in America, Karen Brodkin

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How Jews became white folks and what that says about race in America, Karen Brodkin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How Jews became white folks and what that says about race in America

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

39069432

Responsibility statement

Karen Brodkin

Summary

Recounts how Jews assimilated into, and became accepted by, mainstream white society in the later twentieth century, as they lost their working-class orientation

Table Of Contents

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

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