num_pages: 320
description: <p><p>this Is An Outstanding Book. It Offers Scholars And General Readers A Complicated, Nuanced, And Sophisticated Engagement With [the] Issue.&#151;hasia R. Diner, New York University<p>provocative And Sure To Spark Discussion, This Book Will Interest Students Of Both American And Jewish History. It Is A Valuable Contribution To Scholarship In The Field.&#151;deborah Dash Moore, University Of Michigan</p> <h3>publishers Weekly</h3> <p>relationships Between American Jews And African-americans Have A Long, Complicated History. Jews Engaged In African-american Civil Rights Work As Early As The 1910s. Yet Jewish Songwriter Irving Berlin Felt A Strong Need To Repudiate The Indisputable Influence Of African-american Music On His Work. In This Original, Boldly Conceptualized And Well-researched Inquiry Into The Complicated Intersections Of Race And Jewish-american Identity, Emory University's Goldstein Explores How Jewish Immigrants Gradually Began To Understand Themselves As White (i.e., Fully European) When Most Of America Did Not. Goldstein Writes That He Has Framed This Book Not As A Study Of How Jews Became White But As One That Explores How Jews Negotiated Their Place In A Complex Racial World, Which Makes This Substantially Different From Such Works As Karen Brodkin's How Jews Became White Folks And What That Says About Race In America. Using A Dexterous Mix Of Traditional History, Sociology, Critical Race And Whiteness Studies. Goldstein Brings Together A Wealth Of Examples-such As The Turn-of-the-20th-century Argument That Jews Had A Primitive Negro Past-to Explore The Myriad Ways The Racialization Of Jewishness Formed A Central Tenet Of Ideas About Race In American Culture. (mar.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.</p>
language: en
title: The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity
publisher: Princeton University Press