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Article, Passing (sociology)

Everything in the article was related to the topic. The only thing that I noticed that was missing was popular culture references about gender passing such as the Disney film Mulan. The article is neutral but it under-represents the topics of religion and social class passing. The links work although some of the articles are over 10 years old. The talk pages are discussing examples of the topic that have been removed or edited from the page. Currently it has an excellent rating. The article is about racial, cultural, and religious identity and the history of using other identities to protect individuals or reinvent themselves. The discussion on Wikipedia also revolves around LGBTQ+ and religious issues.

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Where are the 500 words that you were supposed to draft in your sandbox?161.253.68.19 (talk) 20:42, 18 October 2018 (UTC) Oran Evenhaim

For the page African-American Jews

African-American and Jewish Relations
Historically, people of both Jewish and African-American identities have known and understood prejudice and discrimination, in different forms. The Jewish people identify their struggle with the systematic killing of the Jewish people during the Holocaust and hatred towards Jews in Europe and unfair treatment in America by way of immigration and job discrimination for the remainder of the 20th century. At some points during the Civil Rights Movement, like during the March on Washington, Jews and Blacks stood side-by-side in the fight towards racial equality. Tensions between the sides grew by 1968 over the Black Power movement and anti-Zionism.

African Americans faced immense struggles in the United States for centuries under the rule of forced enslavement, lynchings, Jim Crow Laws, and unequal treatment in public spaces due to the Supreme court ruling of Plessy vs. Ferguson.

Both Jews in the United States and African Americans have been systematically persecuted for ascribed characteristics.

In 1988, Leonard Fein wrote in his book Where Are We? The Inner Life of America’s Jews that the Jewish people should continue to work alongside African Americans in order to preserve their civil rights now that the Jewish people are less marginalized as a community.

Historically, African Americans in search of freedom from enslavement conflated their struggle for freedom to the biblical story of Moses and the Israelites escaping from Egypt. To this day, many African-American churches identify with Israel through their Zionism and feeling of connection to the land of Israel (Zion).

The struggle and the eventual rise of Jewish Americans in society motivated the African American community by comparing their struggle to that of the Jewish people. Many African Americans, however, understood that Jews had an advantage over Blacks because of their predominately white skin color and ability to pass as white.

Author W.E.B. Du Bois understood the topics of racism and anti-semitism as related issues that were "perverted teaching and human hate and prejudice". An important point of his anaylsis is that he believed that the history of the groups were not equal but were "historically distinct".

Much of the history of Jews in the United States is complicated based on the perception of Jews as non-white but also not Black or "colored". In this sense, some Jewish people could pass as white and others were discriminated against because they were "racial outsiders".

In the United States, Jewish immigrants and African Americans sometimes lived in the same "non-white" areas. These areas, like the New York neighborhoods of Harlem and the Bronx housed both populations. Jewish immigrants often worked in the garment industry or owned stores that served their African American neighbor.