Karen Brodkin Sacks

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Karen Brodkin Sacks



Director of women's studies and associate professor of anthropology at UCLA. ...more

Average rating: 3.71 · 302 ratings · 45 reviews · 7 distinct worksSimilar authors
How Jews Became White Folks...

3.68 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions
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Interpreting Women's Lives:...

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4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions
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Sisters and Wives: The Past...

3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions
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Making Democracy Matter: Id...

3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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Caring by the Hour: Women, ...

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions
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Power Politics: Environment...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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My Troubles Are Going to Ha...

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions
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“What did it mean to be a Jewish woman, and how did that differ from being a white or mainstream one? Why were middle-class Jews Democrats, and some of our equally middle-class Protestant neighbors Republican?”
Karen Brodkin Sacks, How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America

“Our Jewishness was racially a middle place to experience womanhood. In relation to mainstream white folks, the women of my family felt different. However, in relation to African Americans, we experienced ourselves as mainstream and white.”
Karen Brodkin Sacks, How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America

“Suffrage was attractive to many immigrant daughters, who recognized that race-based benefits of feminine refinement and male protection were white-only and never intended for them.”
Karen Brodkin Sacks, How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America



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