Adam, as the world falls down 🏳️‍🌈's review of How Jews Became White Folks and what that Says about Race in America

Adam, as the world falls down 🏳️‍🌈 reviewed How Jews Became White Folks and what that Says about Race in America by Karen Brodkin

Karen Brodkin: How Jews Became White Folks and what that Says about Race in America (1998)

3.5 with a major blind spot

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I would like to give it 3.5 stars. Historically fascinating and offers details and context to Jews in recent American history. However, it does regard Jews as Ashkenazi Jews, and through this fails as incorporating race from the perspective as different types of Other. In a book about race, this sort of blind spot becomes increasingly apparent.