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Author Dorchin, Uri

Title Blackness in Israel Rethinking Racial Boundaries
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (271 p.)
Series Routledge African Studies
Routledge African studies
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- What is blackness? -- Blackness in Israel -- Blackness and Mizrahi Jews -- Blackness and Arabs -- Blackness and Ethiopian Jews -- Blackness and African descendants -- Structure of the book -- Notes -- References -- Part I Background -- 1 The image of the black in Jewish culture: An overview -- The dread of blackness -- The swarthy Jew and his black counterpart -- In the biblical and rabbinic traditions -- The medieval view
Following the great geographical discoveries -- Notes -- References -- 2 Jewishness, blackness and genetic data: Israeli geneticists and physicians tracing the ancestry of two African populations -- The genetics of human population -- historical background -- The genetic expedition to Ethiopia -- Genetic ancestry testing in a genomic age -- CMH on Y-chromosome and the Lemba tribe -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Blackness in the Jewish Israeli society -- 3 Kinked race and Ethiopian Jewish blackness in Israel: An ethnography -- Jewish blackness as Stigma
Historical context of Ethiopian Jewish blackness -- "White" Jews and "Black" Jews in Israel -- Explaining blackness as stigma: Forms of discrimination -- Race and prejudice within: The upward mobility of Baryas -- "I have a word for you too!": Coping with racism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Black-Israeli lives matter: Online activism among young Ethiopian Israelis -- Background -- The use of symbols, illustrations, and collective emotions -- Black lives matter in Israel -- Social integration or radical protest? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References
5 Blackness in translation: The Israeli Black Panthers, 1971 -- Screwing over the "Blacks"! -- Black and White in the Theater -- Social science and the politics of comparison -- Empathy replaced by fear -- Musrara, 1971 -- Weaponizing blackness -- Interpellation and identity play -- Ethnicity and class -- Ethnicism, culture, and geography -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Blackness, Mizrahi identity and ethnic shifting in contemporary Israeli popular music -- Introduction -- History of Mizrahi music -- What is "blackness" and how is it deployed in Mizrahi Music?
Focus and analytical approach -- Mizrahi identity as a musical-aesthetic counter narrative -- Africans and African Americans represented in Hip Hop produced by Mizrahim -- Blackness as an experience of shared alterity -- Yair Dalal's collaboration with the Bedouin Azazme tribe -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Assi, Seraj (2018) The History and Politics of the Bedouin: Reimagining Nomadism in Modern Palestine. London: Routledge. -- 7 A different hue of blackness: The Haredi case -- Introduction -- Blacks -- Hashkhara -- blackening -- Racialization? -- Notes -- Bibliography
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Djerrahian, Gabriella
ISBN 9781000258349
1000258343