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The price of whiteness : Jews, race, and American identity /

"The Price of Whiteness documents 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 main...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldstein, Eric L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: The Jewish "Race" In America, 1875-1895
  • Chapter 1: "Different blood flows in our veins": race and Jewish self-definition in Late-Nineteenth-Century America
  • Part II: Jews In Black And White, 1896-1918
  • Chapter 2: The unstable other: locating Jews in Progressive Era American racial discourse
  • Chapter 3: "Now is the time to show your true colors": the Jewish approach to African Americans
  • Chapter 4: "What are we?": Jewishness between race and religion
  • Part III: Confronting Jewish Differences, 1919-1935
  • Chapter 5: Race and the "Jewish Problem" in Interwar America
  • Chapter 6: "A White race of another kind"?
  • Chapter 7: Wrestling with racial Jewishness
  • Part IV: From Old Challenges To New, 1936-1950
  • Chapter 8: World War II and the transformation of Jewish racial identity
  • Epilogue: Jews, Whiteness, and "Tribalism" in Multicultural America.