![]() He ignores the fact that racism in the US directed against people of color has always been significantly greater than that directed against Jews. Eisner tidies up the history of Jewish life in New York City by ignoring such inconvenient realities as Jewish socialists and gangsters, which would contradict his picture of the Jewish community as patriotic and law-abiding. ![]() It minimizes the role of racism in perpetuating the depressed conditions of non-white ethnic groups and puts forward Jews as a model for these other, supposedly less capable groups. Eisner’s narrative is an example of Jewish exceptionalism, a theory developed by writers such as Seymour Martin Lipset and Daniel Patrick Moynihan to explain the success of Jews in entering the professions and the middle class. While not all of Eisner’s Jewish characters are virtuous, on the whole Jews are depicted significantly more positively than any other ethnic group. ![]() ![]() Eisner repeatedly shows how racism has been directed against one ethnic group after another, but his own depictions of African-Americans and Hispanics frequently partake of racist stereotypes. Will Eisner’s Dropsie Avenue trilogy follows the history of a multi-ethnic Bronx neighborhood from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth. ![]()
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