Jewish assimilation pressures connect their history to broader minority experience

Evidence

Jews are not unduly part of an economic underclass anymore. But as the analysis of the position of ethnic minorities broadens to consider their place also in the culture and everyday life of dominant societies, there is again much to be gained by placing the history of the Jews and responses to them in the broader perspective of the minority experience as a whole. Extreme racism, as well as the construction of minority identities by majority culture, links the Jewish case to many others. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 525

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s material on how majority cultures construct minority identities — parallels the ‘antisemitism of toleration’ with colonial assimilation projects in the library’s reading.