How Jews Became White Folks — and May Become Nonwhite Under Trump |
How Jews Became White Folks — and May Become Nonwhite Under Trump
Forward
2016-12-06
Karen Brodkin, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles
Decades before I wrote the book “How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America,” I had an eye-opening conversation with my parents. I asked them if they were white. They looked flummoxed and said, “We’re Jewish.”
“But are you white?”
“Well, I guess we’re white; but we’re Jewish.” Then they wanted to know what I thought I was.
I’m white and Jewish…
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