An edition of Race and religion among the chosen peoples of Crown Heights
(2006)
Race and religion among the chosen peoples of Crown Heights
by Henry Goldschmidt
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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.
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2006, Rutgers University Press
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2006, Rutgers University Press
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Table of Contents
I. Collisions: race and religion, a riot and a pogrom
II. Geographies of difference: producing a Jewish neighborhood, kosher homes, racial boundaries
III. The politics of culinary and cultural exchange: white skin, black hats, and other signs of Jews
IV. The voices of Jacob on the streets of Brooklyn: Israelite histories and identities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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