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

268 Pages·1998·39.94 MB·English

by  Karen Brodkin

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How
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White Folks
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about Race in America
KAREN BRODKIN
Rutgers University Press
NewBrunswick, NewJersey, andLondon
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An earlierversion ofchapter 1 appeared under the title “How DidJews
Become White Folks?” in Steven Gregory and Roger Sanjek, eds. Race. New
Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Some material in chapter 4 was previously published in “Euro-ethnic
Working-class Women’s Community Culture,” Frontiers 13, 4, 1994.
Brodkin, Karen.
HowJews became white folks and what that says about race in
America/ Karen Brodkin.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN 0-8135-2589-6 (hardcover alk. paper). ISBN 0-8135-2590-X
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(pbk.)
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1. Jews United States Id—entity. 2. Jews United States Social
conditions. 3. United States Race relations. 4. United States
Ethnic relations. I. Title.
E184.J5B7415 1998
305.892'4073—DG21 98-22606
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For my parents,
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