The Price of Whiteness
Subtitle: Jews, Race, and American Identity
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 17, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780691136318
Subjects: Jewish Studies; Racism & racial discrimination; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; Discrimination & Racism; United States - General; American History
First sentence: MANY AMERICANS today, focused as they are on the basic division between whites and "peoples of color," would undoubtedly accept the judgment of the eminent African American writer James Baldwin, who claimed in 1967 that Jews' history of difference and exclusion meant little in the United States.