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What Should Blacks Think When Jews Choose Whiteness?

Gordon, Jane Anna·2015·Critical Philosophy of Race
DOI 10.5325/critphilrace.3.2.0227
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Revisiting James Baldwin's under-engaged contribution to heated debates over Black (Christian)-(white) Jewish relations in New York City in the late 1960s, “Blacks Are Anti-Semitic Because They Are Anti-White,” in what follows I explore the surprising ways in which two European Jewish women political theorists, Emma Goldman and Hannah Arendt, otherwise celebrated for their rigorous sobriety, enacted the very blindness that framed their Jewishness as a form of whiteness worthy of Baldwin's criticism. I close by considering the ways of envisioning being Jewish that we might build from Baldwin's reflections, ones that would, in enlarging the distance of Jewishness from whiteness, invite transformative brands of solidarity rather than specifically black forms of anti-Semitism. Ironically, this path would have entailed American Jews' becoming more fully themselves rather than indexing their advancement or flourishing through a white, Christian index. Put slightly differently, this essay turns backward to look forward, aiming to understand what I consider missed opportunities worth lamenting so we might proceed differently.

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  1. Adams, Maurianne, and John Bracey. 1999. Strangers & Neighbors: Relations between Black and Jews in the United States. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
  2. Goldman, Emma. 2002. “A Woman without a Country.” In Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader, edited by the Dark Star Collective. Edinburgh: AK Press.
  3. Gutman, Israel. 1971. “Youth Movements in the Underground and the Ghetto Revolts,” in Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust, edited by M. Grubsztein, 260–84 (Proceedings of the Conference on the Manifestation of Jewish Resistance, 1968) Jerusalem: Yad Vashem.

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Authors
Gordon, J. A.
Affiliations
University of Connecticut (US)
Corresponding author
Gordon, Jane Anna
Venue
Critical Philosophy of Race
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Published
2015-07-01
Volume
3
Issue
2
Pages
227-258
ISSN
  • 2165-8684 (ISSN-L)
  • 2165-8692
DOI
10.5325/critphilrace.3.2.0227
OpenAlex
W2753011458
Semantic Scholar
39104052d44c6e6ebd1caab3c7af69d979a36ecb
Cited by
6
References
41
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1
FWCI
6.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Critical Philosophy of Race (publishedVersion)
  • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
  • Critical Philosophy of Race
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Jewish Identity and Society
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
Keywords
James Baldwin, Black-Jewish relations, whiteness, antisemitism, Emma Goldman, Hannah Arendt, Jewish identity, Black Christians, solidarity, New York City, 1960s

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