{"id":1906,"date":"2016-12-09T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2016-12-09T12:15:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:15:34","slug":"eric-goldstein-in-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2016\/12\/09\/eric-goldstein-in-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Goldstein in &#8216;The Atlantic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/goldstein-eric.html\">Eric Goldstein<\/a>, Associate Professor of History, offered his expertise on questions of American and Jewish history and culture for an article in\u00a0<em>The Atlantic\u00a0<\/em>titled &#8220;Are Jews White?&#8221; The piece, written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/emma-green\/\">Emma Green<\/a>, explores how &#8220;Trump&#8217;s election has reopened questions that have long seemed settled in America\u2014including the acceptability of open discrimination against minority groups.&#8221; Check out an excerpt from Goldstein&#8217;s contributions to the article below and read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/12\/are-jews-white\/509453\/\">full piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Jewish identity in American is inherently paradoxical and contradictory,\u201d said Eric Goldstein, an associate professor of history at Emory University. \u201cWhat you have is a group that was historically considered, and considered itself, an outsider group, a persecuted minority. In the space of two generations, they\u2019ve become one of the most successful, integrated groups in American society\u2014by many accounts, part of the establishment. And there\u2019s a lot of dissonance between those two positions.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Eric Goldstein, Associate Professor of History, offered his expertise on questions of American and Jewish history and culture for an article in\u00a0The Atlantic\u00a0titled &#8220;Are Jews White?&#8221; The piece, written by Emma Green, explores how &#8220;Trump&#8217;s election has reopened questions that have long seemed settled in America\u2014including the acceptability of open discrimination against minority groups.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-publications","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}