Price of Whiteness
What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white? 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 mainstream and abandoned th...
What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white? 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 mainstream and abandoned th...
