{"id":52313,"date":"2017-03-11T03:06:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T03:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52313"},"modified":"2017-03-11T03:07:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T03:07:52","slug":"more-than-a-feeling-jews-and-whiteness-in-trumps-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52313","title":{"rendered":"More than a Feeling: Jews and Whiteness in Trump\u2019s America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jocsm.org\/more-than-a-feeling-jews-and-whiteness-in-trumps-america\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>More than a Feeling: Jews and Whiteness in Trump\u2019s America<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jocsm.org\" target=\"_blank\">Unruly: A racial justice blog by the Jews of Color Caucus organized in partnership with Jewish Voice for Peace<\/a><br \/>\n2017-02-23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tsengputterman\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mark Tseng-Putterman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jocsm.org\/more-than-a-feeling-jews-and-whiteness-in-trumps-america\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jocsm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/lower-eastside-nyc_nyc-department-of-records-e1394054454538.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks after the election, I had dinner at my grandparents\u2019 house. I typically associate my visits to their home with raucous family gatherings of a cross-section of our grandparents\u2019 six children and twenty-odd grandkids. But this was an unusually intimate setting\u2014just my sibling and I across from them at their dining room table.<\/p>\n<p>The relative silence refracted objects and half-memories in the way that only an old home can. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_of_David\" target=\"_blank\">Magen David<\/a> brooch around my grandmother\u2019s neck; the overflowing pile of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religious_Zionism\" target=\"_blank\">kippot<\/a> in the foyer, amassed from decades of B\u2019nai Mitzvot; the ice bucket that has chilled four generations\u2019 worth of cocktails. This is the desk where my father chipped a tooth, climbing to reach a misfired toy dart in his childhood bedroom. Here is the piano bench where his uncle, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">World War II<\/a> veteran turned wedding singer, taught him to play by ear. These are the wedding albums, full of awkward <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bar_and_Bat_Mitzvah\" target=\"_blank\">bar mitzvah<\/a> photos, the elegant portraits of black-and-white elders wearing garb of the Old Country that perhaps is now gathering dust in my grandmother\u2019s attic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/jocsm.org\/more-than-a-feeling-jews-and-whiteness-in-trumps-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks after the election, I had dinner at my grandparents\u2019 house. I typically associate my visits to their home with raucous family gatherings of a cross-section of our grandparents\u2019 six children and twenty-odd grandkids. But this was an unusually intimate setting\u2014just my sibling and I across from them at their dining room table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,3601,8,26,820,23674,20],"tags":[23677,26401,26400],"class_list":["post-52313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-religion","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-mark-tseng-putterman","tag-unruly","tag-unruly-a-racial-justice-blog-by-the-jews-of-color-caucus-organized-in-partnership-with-jewish-voice-for-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52313","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=52313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52315,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52313\/revisions\/52315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}