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American Jewry and Bonacich's Middleman Minority Theory

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  • Robert Cherry

    (Department of Economics, Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, New York 11210)

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This paper critiques Bonacich's application of her middleman minority theory to the American Jewish experience. American Jewish immigrants did not have a sojourner outlook nor did they shift to the intermediary positions that Bonacich's theory anticipates. In contrast to Bonacich's model, Jews accumulated human and physical capital as a result of their lack of a sojourner outlook and remained a predominantly working-class group prior to World War II. Rather than being clannish and hostile to progressive movements, Jews were assimilationist and supportive of unions and antiracist activities.

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  • Robert Cherry, 1990. "American Jewry and Bonacich's Middleman Minority Theory," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 22(2-3), pages 158-173, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:22:y:1990:i:2-3:p:158-173
    DOI: 10.1177/048661349002200208
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