Fighting to become Americans
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Why would an American ethnic group use racist terms to describe itself? Riv-Ellen Prell asks this compelling question as she observes how deeply antisemitic stereotypes - particularly gender stereotypes - infuse Jewish men's and women's views of one another.
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Through her careful reading of these fluctuating yet consistent Jewish gender stereotypes, Prell offers an innovative history of American Jewish acculturation in the twentieth century.
Exploring Jewish self-representations in popular culture - magazines, fiction, sermons, films, stand-up comedy, and articles and letters in the Jewish press - Prell examines gender stereotypes like the turn-of-the-century "Ghetto Girl," the devouring Jewish mother of the postwar years, and, more recently, the "Jewish Prince" and the "JAP." Fighting to Become Americans is a provocative book for anyone interested in the dynamics that divide minority groups.
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