How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America

The Fashion of Belonging: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in American Nationhood is a thought-provoking and insightful exploration of the complex intersections of identity in America.

Through an examination of the history of Jews in the United States, Brodkin sheds light on the ways in which racial classification has shaped ethnoracial identities and experiences.

By analyzing her own family's multi-generational experience, Brodkin illustrates the double vision that comes from being racially middling - both marginal to whiteness and simultaneously belonging to blackness.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the nuanced and often fraught nature of identity in America, and how it has been shaped by class and gender as well as race.