Tuesday, November 27, 2012 • 314 Royce Hall • 12 PM

The Color of Marriage: Jews, Race, and Intermarriage in America

Jennifer Glaser (U of Cincinnati)

Faculty/Student Seminar Series
This paper looks particularly at Hettie Jones’ memoir of her marriage to the poet LeRoi Jones/ Amiri Baraka, How I Became Hettie Jones (1990), Lore Segal’s novel Her First American (1985), and Gary Shteyngart’s recent Super Sad True Love Story (2010) to show the conjoined histories of gender and race in Jewish American culture during the period. 

Sponsored by the

UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Cosponsored by the

UCLA Center for the Study of Religion
UCLA Department of English
NEH Endowment on Jewish Civilization