{"id":52821,"date":"2017-03-24T01:07:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T01:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52821"},"modified":"2017-03-24T01:07:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T01:07:59","slug":"identity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52821","title":{"rendered":"Identity Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com\/features\/identity-crisis\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Identity Crisis<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Independent Review of Books<\/a><br \/>\n2017-03-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwestern.edu\/departments\/faculty\/faculty.php?id=meyersh&amp;style=feminist\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Helene Meyers<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u201cwhite Jewish\u201d question posed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14387\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Human Stain<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emmaogreen\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Green<\/a> of the Atlantic started a firestorm recently with the article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/12\/are-jews-white\/509453\/\" target=\"_blank\">Are Jews White?<\/a>\u201d Taking for granted that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashkenazi_Jews\" target=\"_blank\">Ashkenazi Jews<\/a> have assimilated to whiteness, Green used the white Jewish question to wonder whether the rise of the so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alt-right\" target=\"_blank\">alt-right<\/a>\u201d (read racist, misogynist white supremacists) is upending Jewish security in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Green\u2019s provocative title question caused quite a bit of tumult on Twitter. Predictably and understandably, Jews of color replied, with much amusement and some angst, \u201cNo.\u201d Some white Jews responded, \u201cNo,\u201d as well, citing anti-Semitism and\/or Jewish distinctiveness. For once, this group agreed with the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Duke\" target=\"_blank\">David Duke<\/a>, who tweeted in all caps \u201cNO \u2014 JEWS ARE NOT WHITE.\u201d Some white Jews and blacks unequivocally replied, \u201cYes,\u201d citing white privilege as decisive.<\/p>\n<p>While the answers to Green\u2019s question from Jewish-American literature are all over the map, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philip_Roth\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Roth\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14387\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Human Stain<\/em><\/a> brilliantly depicts the continuing effects of \u201cso arbitrary a designation as race\u201d on those who choose or are assigned the off-whiteness of Jewishness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com\/features\/identity-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the answers to Green\u2019s question from Jewish-American literature are all over the map, Philip Roth\u2019s The Human Stain brilliantly depicts the continuing effects of \u201cso arbitrary a designation as race\u201d on those who choose or are assigned the off-whiteness of Jewishness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,3601,1196,8,6462,820,20],"tags":[26653,26654,8110,10964],"class_list":["post-52821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-judaism","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-religion","category-usa","tag-emma-green","tag-helene-meyers","tag-philip-roth","tag-washington-independent-review-of-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52821","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=52821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52822,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52821\/revisions\/52822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}