Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xi, 281 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780813538976
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0813538971
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0813538831
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9780813538839
Inhalt:
In the first major scholarly work to look beyond the sensationalized violence of August 1991, Henry Goldschmidt explores the everyday realities of Black-Jewish difference in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, he argues that collective identities like Blackness and Jewishness are particularly complex in today's Crown Heights because the neighborhood's Afro-Caribbean, African American, and Lubavitch Hasidic communities understand their differences in dramatically different ways-as a racial divide between Blacks and Whites or a religious di
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-272) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: "Blacks" and "Jews" at the Laundromat; Introduction: Race, Religion, and the Contest over Black-Jewish Difference in Crown Heights; Chapter 1: Collisions: Race and Religion, a Riot and a Pogrom; Chapter 2: Geographies of Difference: Producing a Jewish Neighborhood; Chapter 3: Kosher Homes, Racial Boundaries: The Politics of Culinary and Cultural Exchange; Chapter 4: White Skin, Black Hats, and Other Signs of Jews; Chapter 5: The Voices of Jacob on the Streets of Brooklyn: Israelite Histories and Identities
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Conclusion: "Stiffnecked Peoples" and American MulticulturalismNotes; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780813538839
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Race and Religion Among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights
Sprache:
Englisch
