Beyond Whiteness: Revisiting Jews in Ethnic America - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 161249918X ISBN 13 : 9781612499185

Editeur : Purdue University Press, 2023

Synopsis

The concept of ethnicity, once in vogue, has largely gone out of fashion among twenty-first-century social scientists, now replaced by models of assimilation defined in terms of the construction of whiteness and white supremacy. Beyond Whiteness: Revisiting Jews in Ethnic America explores the benefits of reconfiguring the ethnic concept as a tool to analyze the experiences of twentieth-century American Jews-not only in relation to other "white" groups of European descent, but also African Americans and Asian Americans, among others. The essays presented here, ranging from comparative studies of Jews and Asians as "model minorities" to the examination of postethnic "Jews of color," demonstrate that expanding ethnicity beyond the traditional Eurocentric frame can yield fresh insights into the character of Jewish life in the modern United States.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jonathan Karp is an associate professor of Judaic studies and history at Binghamton University (SUNY). From 2010-2013, he served as executive director of the American Jewish Historical Society. He is the author of The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe, 1638-1848, and has coedited five volumes on a wide array of topics, including The Cambridge History of Judaism in the Early Modern World and World War I and the Jews. His forthcoming book looks at how Blacks and Jews together transformed American popular music.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Purdue University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 161249918X
• ISBN 13: 9781612499185
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 226
• Éditeur: Karp Jonathan
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