Beyond Whiteness Ilina Singh Alicia Kozma

Alicia Kozma

decent people – but people who have difficulties

Weijia Pan

carrying with it complex cultural meanings

and solidarity and details how people adapted these traditions when necessary

Beyond Whiteness Ilina Singh Alicia KozmaThe 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