Quotes from Tamar Jacoby

Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.

Regardless of where they come from, immigrants learn that, in America, lighter is always better, darker is always worse and black is worst. Little time passes before immigrants become prejudiced against African-Americans. This, too, is a kind of assimilation, and one that Israel Zangwill's idealistic vision never anticipated.