The Jewish Whiteness Debate in the U.S.

In American racial discourse, the question of whether Jews in America are “white” is difficult to answer clearly, in part because the categories being applied were never designed to describe Jewish identity in the first place. In recent years, this question has increasingly been used in online discourse to frame Jews as either insiders or outsiders within systems of power, often in ways that oversimplify Jewish identity. The topic has […]