Race, color, identity : rethinking discourses about "Jews" in the twenty-first century /: rethinking discourses about "Jews" in the twenty-first century. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Efraim Sicher ; foreword by Sander L. Gilman.
• Editors: Sicher, Efraim
• Contents: Foreword ; Sander Gilman Introduction: Rethinking Discourses about "Jews" ; Efraim Sicher PART I: JEWS AND RACE IN AMERICA Chapter 1. "I'm not White – I'm Jewish": The Racial Politics of American Jews; Cheryl Greenberg Chapter 2. Reflections on Black/Jewish Relations in the Age of Obama; Ibrahim Sundiata Chapter 3. Stains, Plots, and the Neighbor Thing: Jews, Blacks and Philip Roth's Utopias; Adam Zachary Newton Chapter 4. Spaces of Ambivalence: Blacks and Jews in New York City; Catherine Rottenberg Chapter 5. African-American Culture, Anthropological Practices and the Jewish "Race" in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men; Dalit Alperovich Chapter 6. Jewish Characters in Weeds : Reinserting 'Race' into the Postmodern Discourse on American Jews; Hannah Adelman Komy Ofir and Shlomi Deloia PART II: JEWS AS BLACKS / BLACK JEWS Chapter 7. A Member of the Club? How Black Jews Negotiate Black Anti-Semitism and Jewish Racism; Bruce Haynes Chapter 8. Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel: The Discourses of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Racism; Steven Kaplan Chapter 9. Black-Jews in Academic and Institutional Discourse; Yonah Zianga Chapter 10. The "Descendants of David" of Madagascar: Crypto-Judaic identities in 21st century Africa; Edith Bruder PART III: DISCOURSES OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES Chapter 11. After the Fact: "Jews" in Post-1945 German Physical Anthropology; Amos Morris-Reich Chapter 12. Genes as Jewish History?: Human Population Genetics in the Service of Historians; Noa Sophie Kohler and Dan Mishmar Chapter 13. Sarrazin and the Myth of the "Jewish Gene"; Klaus Hödl Chapter 14. Blood, Soul, Race, and Suffering: Full-Bodied Ethnography and Expressions of Jewish Belonging; Fran Markowitz Chapter 15. Jews, Muslims, European Identities: Multiculturalism and Anti-Semitism in Britain; Efraim Sicher Chapter 16. Brothers in Misery: Re-connecting Sociologies of Racism and Anti-Semitism; Glynis Cousin and Robert Fine Chapter 17. Race by the Grace of God: Race, Religion, and the Construction of "Jew" and "Arab"; Ivan Davidson Kalmar Select Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.800973; Jews -- United States -- Identity; African Americans -- Relations with Jews; Race; Jews -- Great Britain; Muslims -- Relations with Jews; Jews -- Africa -- Identity; Genetics; Jews, Ethiopian -- Israel; Europe -- Ethnic relations; United States -- Ethnic relations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857458933
• Related ISBNs: 9780857458926
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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