Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism

Book Overview

Twelve distinguished historians, political theorists, and literary critics present new perspectives on multiculturalism in this important collection. Central to the essays (all but one is appearing in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520211081
• ISBN13: 9780520211087
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

A Great (and different) Perspective on Multiculturalism

This book studies multiculturalism from a Jewish perspective. With essays coming from the perspectives of sociology, history, sociology, and cultural theory (among others), it provides a wide variety of perspectives. The most important contribution of the book is that it explains how Jews are, in cultural discorse, neither white nor non-white. Jews straddle the line. It provides a balanced analysis of what this means. An important read for anyone interested in diversity and ethnic/racial theory.