American Jews & White Supremacy: The Present Dilemmas of an Unstable History

Over the last five years,  Americans  have  reckoned  anew  with  the  history  of  this country’s racism and what that history requires from the present. In this online talk, Professor Lila Corwin Berman asks how American Jews   fit—or   do   not   fit—in   these   often    painful and polarizing conversations. She argues that older debates about whether Jews were “white,” should be supplanted by newer efforts to ask how whiteness organizes power and when and how Jews have been included in or excluded from that racialized system of American power.

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