Distancing from Blacks was a condition of acquiring social Whiteness

Evidence

Another prerequisite for becoming socially White was disassociation from Blacks. Thus when Booker T. Washington in 1906 condemned lynching by comparing it to pogroms, some Jewish Americans refuted the comparison by praising the freedoms available in America and pointing out the criminality of the Negro. Similarly, some Jewish Americans’ support for disenfranchisement of Blacks in the first half of the twentieth century was a means of proving their racial loyalty to Anglo-American normativity, into which they sought acceptance. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 388

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: A vivid scene: Jewish immigrants denouncing Black causes to prove loyalty — the internalized cost of racial belonging could anchor a character study.
• SEED: Article angle: the uncomfortable history of minority-on-Black distancing as the price of assimilation into Whiteness.
• XREF: connects to: Pressure to pass into whiteness acted on all racialized groups; Whiteness was defined as exclusion from black occupation, not skin or work — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 399; Housing scarcity and residential transition drove working-class whites into organized racism — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 104