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November 14, 2024

Why Whiteness Studies Is Bad for the Jews

And for everyone else.

In the past several years, “whiteness” has emerged as a ubiquitous academic buzzword, spawning an entire field of “whiteness studies.” While the term sprung out of efforts to deconstruct notions of race, Balazs Berkovits argues that it has become part of a worldview based on immutable racial characteristics. Experts on “whiteness” also tend to ignore anti-Semitism, or engage in it, as Berkovits explains in conversation with Alan Johnson:

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