In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States

by Victoria Hattam

Book Overview

Race in the United States has long been associated with heredity and inequality while ethnicity has been linked to language and culture. In the Shadow of Race recovers the history of this entrenched distinction and the divisive politics it engenders.

Victoria Hattam locates the origins of ethnicity in the New York Zionist movement of the early 1900s. In a major revision of widely held assumptions, she argues that Jewish activists identified...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226319237
• ISBN13: 9780226319230
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"