Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. FIGURES ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I: THE JEWISH “RACE” IN AMERICA, 1875–1895
7. CHAPTER 1. “DIFFERENT BLOOD FLOWS IN OUR VEINS”: RACE AND JEWISH SELF-DEFINITION IN LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA 11
8. PART II: JEWS IN BLACK AND WHITE, 1896–1918
9. CHAPTER 2. THE UNSTABLE OTHER: LOCATING JEWS IN PROGRESSIVE ERA AMERCIAN RACIAL DISCOURSE 35
10. CHAPTER 3. “NOW IS THE TIME TO SHOW YOUR TRUE COLORS”: THE JEWISH APPROACH TO AFRICAN AMERICANS 51
11. CHAPTER 4. “WHAT ARE WE?”: JEWISHNESS BETWEEN RACE AND RELIGION 86
12. PART III: CONFRONTING JEWISH DIFFERENCE, 1919–1935
13. CHAPTER 5. RACE AND THE “JEWISH PROBLEM” IN INTERWAR AMERICA 119
14. CHAPTER 6. “A WHITE RACE OF ANOTHER KIND”? 138
15. CHAPTER 7. WRESTLING WITH RACIAL JEWISHNESS 165
16. PART IV: FROM OLD CHALLENGES TO NEW, 1936–1950
17. CHAPTER 8. WORLD WAR II AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF JEWISH RACIAL IDENTITY 189
18. EPILOGUE: JEWS, WHITENESS, AND “TRIBALISM” IN MULTICULTURAL AMERICA 209
19. NOTES 241
20. INDEX 293