The price of whiteness
Subtitle: Jews, race, and American identity
By: Eric L. Goldstein.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Jews -- United States -- Identity; Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- United States; Social integration -- United States; European Americans -- Race identity; Whites -- Race identity -- United States; United States -- Race relations; United States -- Ethnic relations
Description: "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 the practice of describing themselves in racial terms." "Today, despite the great success Jews enjoy in the United States, they still struggle with the constraints of America's black-white dichotomy. The Price of Whiteness concludes that while Jews' status as white has opened many doors for them, it has also placed limits on their ability to assert themselves as a group apart."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.