{"id":50484,"date":"2016-12-08T02:43:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T02:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50484"},"modified":"2016-12-08T02:43:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T02:43:45","slug":"how-jews-became-white-folks-and-may-become-nonwhite-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50484","title":{"rendered":"How Jews Became White Folks \u2014 and May Become Nonwhite Under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/356166\/how-jews-became-white-folks-and-may-become-nonwhite-under-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>How Jews Became White Folks \u2014 and May Become Nonwhite Under Trump<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\" target=\"_blank\">Forward<\/a><br \/>\n2016-12-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthro.ucla.edu\/people\/faculty?lid=963\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Karen Brodkin<\/strong><\/a>, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Decades before I wrote the book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=24609\" target=\"_blank\">How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America<\/a>,\u201d I had an eye-opening conversation with my parents. I asked them if they were white. They looked flummoxed and said, \u201cWe\u2019re Jewish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut are you white?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I <em>guess<\/em> we\u2019re white; but we\u2019re <em>Jewish<\/em>.\u201d Then they wanted to know what I thought I was.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m white <em>and<\/em> Jewish&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/356166\/how-jews-became-white-folks-and-may-become-nonwhite-under-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Jews Became White Folks \u2014 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 \u201cHow Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America,\u201d I had an eye-opening conversation with my parents. I asked them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,459,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[24986,21057,20566,7848],"class_list":["post-50484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-history","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-forward","tag-karen-brodkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50485,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50484\/revisions\/50485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}