Klein’s privileged invisibility to racial projection blinded her to its operation on her

Evidence

In truth, I have mostly been free to tell myself that this kind of doubling was not my cross to bear. I moved through the world blithely assuming the people I met would easily decode the distinctiveness in my particular arrangement of features and correctly identify me as me—and not project a presumed identity onto me based on a haze of my skin tone, hair texture, and eye shape. What my mother was saying over lunch, though, was that I have been badly fooling myself, that Wolf and I had always been lumped together inside a very particular cultural stereotype—that of the striving Jewess. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 919

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the ‘striving Jewess’ stereotype as what collapses Wolf and Klein into one figure — key definitional move in the doubling analysis.
• QUESTION: Whether this self-aware reckoning with privilege actually gets deployed in the final chapters, or stays as an admission.