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Category Archives: Race
My Experiences with The Other: Berkshires Edition
I had this post semi-written up a few years ago, but never finished. A recent Counter-Currents piece on the writer’s weekend in The Berkshires prompted me to finish it (and post as a comment.) I figured I’d reproduce it here … Continue reading
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Frank Allen: “The Other JQ: The Jazz Question”
At Counter-Currents, Frank Allen has a very good essay on “The Other JQ: The Jazz Question”. As a big jazz fan myself (especially the harder East Coast style), I found this to be a very good orientation of the contours … Continue reading
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Angry Asians on ‘Crazy Rich Asians’
Jiayang Fan, of the Sarah Jeong Defense Space Force, reviews Crazy Rich Asians, and of course slavishly works out the woke aspects of the film vs. its microaggressive stereotypes (“How to Watch “Crazy Rich Asians” Like an Asian-American”). With an … Continue reading
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The Songs of Jeong & Lee
The late founder of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, is famous for observing: “In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion.” This axiom led Yew … Continue reading
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Who Best to Introduce Cormac McCarthy?
Rachel Kushner, who for reasons I can’t comprehend was selected to write the Introduction to a new Picador edition of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Border Trilogy’ writes: As I revisited the trilogy recently, I was in a home office that is walking … Continue reading
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NYT’s Q&A w/Billy Joel
Virtually every NYT culture story injects Trumphitler into the mix. They just can’t help themselves (“Billy Joel’s Got a Good Job and Hits in His Head”). After sustained Q&A about his musical past and present, the reporter (Rob Tannenbaum) throws out … Continue reading
Religiosity & Ethnicity: Jewish Identity Trends in the U.S.
Cohen, S.M. 2001. “Religiosity and ethnicity: Jewish identity trends in the United States”, in Who owns Judaism? Public religion and private Faith in America and Israel, vol. XVII, ed. E. Lederhendler, pp. 101-130. Oxford University Press. Cohen identifies 6 dimensions … Continue reading
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Religion as a Channel of Jewish Ethnicity
From “Accounting for Jewish Secularism: Is a New Cultural Identity Emerging?” by Bruce A. Phillips. Source: Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 30, No. 1, Special Issue: Jewish Secularism (June 2010), pp. 63-85: All Jewish immigrants, regardless of when they came, brought with them … Continue reading
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The ‘Nervousness’ of the Jew
Excerpt from Abraham Myerson’s “The ‘Nervousness’ of the Jew,” Mental Hygiene 4 (1920): 65–72: It is idle, of course, to deny that the Jew has an innate character, different from that of other races, which perhaps predisposes him to psychoneuroses … Continue reading
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Jews and Race (The Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought) (2011)
Jews and Race (The Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought) (2011) Edited by Mitchell B. Hart Published by Brandeis University Press Publisher’s Summary: Many people think of Jews as victims of a particular sort of racism, not as active participants … Continue reading