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Beyond the Color Line: Jews, Blacks, and the American Racial Imagination
Jennifer Young
NYU Doctoral Candidate Jennifer Young explores the complicated ways in which American Jews claimed whiteness while examining and often identifying with Black American struggles.
Jun 21, 2016
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Af der shvel un in der fremd: A feuilleton on Yiddish, Race, and the American Literary Imagination
Adam Zachary Newton
Adam Zachary Newton examines the American Jewish literary impulse to claim both whiteness and alienation while identifying with Black Americans.
Jun 21, 2016