Roth, Philip

In Philip Roth s Counterlife (1988) a Gentile woman chances to comment that she seldom repays the attention of Jewish men because there are enough politics in sex without racial politics coming into it. We re not a race, objects her Jewish listener. The ensuing exchange cuts to the very heart of difference and the epistemology of race. 

The thick traces of this history and the Jewish discomfort with it are nicely captured in the exchange with which this study opened, a scene from The Counterlife in which two of Philip Roth s characters argue over whether or not Jews are Caucasian. In an era when religious orthodoxy... 

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowicz, My Jewish Face and Other Stories (San Francisco Spinster-Aunt Lute, 1990) Philip Roth, The Counterlife (New York Penguin, 1988), p. 79. 

G.S. Duesberg, M. Burghard, J. Munster, G. Philip, and S. Roth, Separation of carbon nanotubes by size exclusion chromatography, Chem. Commun., 435 37 (1998). 

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