- Taschenbuch: 264 Seiten
- Verlag: Rutgers Univ Pr (Februar 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 081352590X
- ISBN-13: 978-0813525907
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,9 x 15,2 x 1,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 483.430 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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paper 0-8135-2590-X How Jews came, during the last three decades, to be viewed, by themselves and others, as white (having previously been considered not quite white) is the focus of this equally interesting and flawed study. By white anthropologist Brodkin (Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles; Caring by the Hour, not reviewed) means not only skin color but also an ethnic-cultural identity (something connoted by such phrases as ``WASP'' and ``mainstream American'') as well as factors such as class and labor status. Through anecdotal, sociological, historical, literary, and other cultural material, she traces the decline of American Jews' working-class values, the loss of a distinctive language (Yiddish), the development of left-liberal politics, and general ethnic cohesiveness. Brodkin has some fascinating insights into the interplay between Jewish ethnicity and gender. For example, she observes that the stereotypes of the smothering Jewish mother and of the Jewish-American Princess may well represent Jewish men's projections on to Jewish women of their own ambivalence about assimilating into the materially alluring but often culturally and spiritually shallow postwar mainstream American culture. Unfortunately, Brodkin's perspective, which draws heavily on ``African American, neo-Marxist and critical race theory,'' neglects entirely or scants a number of key factors in the growing acceptance of Jews as full-fledged whites, such as the post-Holocaust rejection of the concept of a ``Jewish race.'' Brodkin also errs in other ways, such as romanticizing the degree of ``reciprocity'' (ethnic cohesion and mutual aid) found among Lower East Side immigrant Jews. While containing a great deal of interesting material from several disciplines, including popular culture, Brodkin's book ultimately is unsatisfying because it rests on too narrow a theoretical base and contains too many unwarranted generalizations. Thus, the author fails to sustain the view that the story of the Jews' successful assimilation into ``white culture,'' during an era of persistent discrimination against those who are now known as ``people of color,'' reflects something important about the role of race in American life. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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An assessment of how race, class, and gender shape social identity in the United States. The author argues that changes in racial assignment have shaped the ways American Jews of different eras have constructed their own ethnoracial identities.
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While the book includes many valid insights, the main idea is way off. The author confuses class with race- when the Jews attained upward mobility they were white, before that they were un-white. Anyone with a minimal knowledge of American history knows that in this country, the color of one's skin became the single racial divider, dividing the rich from the poor as well as the poor from the poor.
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The author's examination of the "myth" of Jewish upward mobility as being due primarily to hard-work and discipline and only secondarily to the decline of explicit anti-semitic prejudice is fascinating (although hardly controversial anymore.) What is more important is how the author leverages her experiences and Jewish experiences in the U.S. as a springboard to examine how ethnoracial identities and ethnoracial assignments affect the life chances of individuals and communities today. My strongest "disappointment" with this book is the feeling that it seems somewhat academic and far too short to do its subject justice.
Format:Taschenbuch
This book, like others in the area of whiteness studies, reconfigures the way we think about race in America. Brodkin turns the debate over affirmative action on its head. When Jews argue that blacks might learn from their example in order to achieve economic and social mobility, they forget that they themselves benefited from a "Euro-male affirmative action" implemented after World War II. Jewish mainstream success was thus a result of their acceptance as whites, and less as a result of hard work and determination. Through historical and theoretical exploration of race in America, Brodkin offers a convincing case for the social construction of race and indeterminacy of the category of "white." The book is just as provocative as the title. Books like these will force us to reevaluate how we think about race today and will provoke us to question certain logic guiding our social relations that seems obvious but in truth is not.
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