Gentleman's Agreement (to remember intersectionality)
Dear Mr. Green,
Your social experiment of being Jewish for 8 weeks- though reminiscent of a Buzzfeed headline- was certainly one of good intention. Your exploration of prejudice and discrimination during the peak of anti-semitism surely led to insightful conclusions that you were able to educate readers about, and for this reason, I believe your project was both creative and interesting in its way of making a powerful statement.
However, I found the parameters of your experiment to be rather narrow. First of all, you faced anti-semistism in the confined space of an upper-class white man's life in the professional world. What about non-white Jews? How are Jewish women treated differently? What about people of Jewish faith who are from lower classes? Unemployed Jews? You did not look deeper into these different layers of oppression within anti-semitism- you did not apply the fundamentals of intersectionality. Thus, I would like to request that in your next project, please remember to further explore how these various interconnected categorizations may create a more chaotic mesh of disadvantage than the one you were able to write about.
Thank you,
Sarah Guller
Your social experiment of being Jewish for 8 weeks- though reminiscent of a Buzzfeed headline- was certainly one of good intention. Your exploration of prejudice and discrimination during the peak of anti-semitism surely led to insightful conclusions that you were able to educate readers about, and for this reason, I believe your project was both creative and interesting in its way of making a powerful statement.
However, I found the parameters of your experiment to be rather narrow. First of all, you faced anti-semistism in the confined space of an upper-class white man's life in the professional world. What about non-white Jews? How are Jewish women treated differently? What about people of Jewish faith who are from lower classes? Unemployed Jews? You did not look deeper into these different layers of oppression within anti-semitism- you did not apply the fundamentals of intersectionality. Thus, I would like to request that in your next project, please remember to further explore how these various interconnected categorizations may create a more chaotic mesh of disadvantage than the one you were able to write about.
Thank you,
Sarah Guller
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