Professor Eric Goldstein of Emory University in conversation with Professor Kabria Baumgartner of Northeastern, discussing what has it meant to be Jewish in a nation organized around the categories of "Black" and "White"? How have the ambiguities of Jewish identity complicated ideas of race in America? They discuss the ways in which immigrant Jews in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries negotiated the process of redefining themselves according to American racial and social contructs, and how, post-World War II, Jews entered the mainstream White establishment with attendant social, class, educational, and economic implications. It was as late as this period of history that Jews in America came to be seen as "white," a label that affords both privilege and entails losses and compromises for some Jews, whether because they want to maintain a sense of distinctiveness as Jews, identify with minority experiences, are of non-European background, or experience anti-semitism by White racists.
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