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I found it interesting that the marriage of Issac and West was not as socially unacceptable because Issac was a Jew. White Protestants viewed Jews as inferior and therefore could somewhat justify the black/white relationship. It wasn’t one of “them” who was having sexual relations with a black woman. They would really look for anything to try and not put a blemish on the supreme white society. - Kari W. | I found it interesting that the marriage of Issac and West was not as socially unacceptable because Issac was a Jew. White Protestants viewed Jews as inferior and therefore could somewhat justify the black/white relationship. It wasn’t one of “them” who was having sexual relations with a black woman. They would really look for anything to try and not put a blemish on the supreme white society. - Kari W. | ||
| − | I also found it very interesting that somehow David’s faith prevented him from being held to such a high standard of morality. It was almost as though since he was Jewish that he could not be technically held to the same Christian standards, yet he could still be held to society’s standards, which touches upon a major idea of the role of community. We discussed last week the role of community in influencing social interactions between blacks and whites in Stevenson’s work and we see that again this week looking at how the law and how society determined race, social status, and interactions between the two. – Mary Beth | + | I also found it very interesting that somehow David’s faith prevented him from being held to such a high standard of morality. It was almost as though since he was Jewish that he could not be technically held to the same Christian standards, yet he could still be held to society’s standards, which touches upon a major idea of the role of community. We discussed last week the role of community in influencing social interactions between blacks and whites in Stevenson’s work and we see that again this week looking at how the law and how society determined race, social status, and interactions between the two. – Mary Beth |
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| + | That was a little puzzling to me too, Kari. It was almost as if the area as a whole viewed the Jewish community as "the good kind" of minority, willing to overlook Christian-Judeo marriages as less of an offense than marriages between blacks and whites. After all, the Constitution excused freedom of religion explicitly. Not so much freedom of race. -Cash | ||
== Chapter 3 - Brothels and Prostitution == | == Chapter 3 - Brothels and Prostitution == | ||
