Reviewed by Donna Gabaccia | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.3

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White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics. By Joshua M. Zeitz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiii + 278 pp. Photos, tables, notes, and index. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Joshua Zeitz makes two significant contributions to whiteness studies in White Ethnic New York. First, much like Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, he insists on the salience of religious and ethnic diversity among white voters. Second, Zeitz documents that white ethnics' reservations about New Deal liberalism preceded the black-white conflicts of the 1960s. Those seeking to explain the shift of significant numbers of whites from the Democratic to the Republican Party will find here a complex yet intriguing story. It is a story unabashedly focused on New York City with its large populations of Jewish, Catholic, and African American voters and its own distinctive political history, marked both by an often progressive Republican Party and by large numbers of independent voters.

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