Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses About "Jews" in the Twenty-First Century - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782382070 ISBN 13 : 9781782382072

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2015

Synopsis

Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and technological innovations has taken on racial overtones, such as attributing inherited physiological traits to certain ethnic groups or using DNA testing to determine biological links with ethnic ancestry. This book contributes to the discussion by opening up previously locked concepts of the relation between the terms color, race, and "Jews", and by engaging with globalism, multiculturalism, hybridity, and diaspora. The contributors--leading scholars in anthropology, sociology, history, literature, and cultural studies--discuss how it is not merely a question of whether Jews are acknowledged to be interracial, but how to address academic and social discourses that continue to place Jews and others in a race/color category.

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À propos de l?auteur

Efraim Sicher is Professor of Comparative and English Literature at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He has published essays and books on modern Jewish culture, Holocaust memory, and anti-Semitism. His most recent books are The Holocaust Novel (2005), Babel in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity (2012), Rereading the City / Rereading Dickens (2nd edition 2012), and Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the "Jew" in Contemporary British Writing (with Linda Weinhouse, 2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782382070
• ISBN 13: 9781782382072
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 398
• Éditeur: Sicher Efraim
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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