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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas (Hardback or Cased Book)
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 0674066987
- EAN
- 9780674066984
- Binding
- TC
- Book Title
- Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
- Item Length
- 8.8in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Topic
- Africa / General, Black Studies (Global), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Jewish Studies, Jewish
- Item Width
- 7.4in
- Item Weight
- 16.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 220 Pages
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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race narratives over a millennium in which not only were Jews cast as black but black Africans were cast as Jews, Tudor Parfitt reveals a complex history of the interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses. For centuries, colonialists, travelers, and missionaries, in an attempt to explain and understand the strange people they encountered on the colonial frontier, labeled an astonishing array of African tribes, languages, and cultures as Hebrew, Jewish, or Israelite. Africans themselves came to adopt these identities as their own, invoking their shared histories of oppression, imagined blood-lines, and common traditional practices as proof of a racial relationship to Jews. Beginning in the post-slavery era, contacts between black Jews in America and their counterparts in Africa created powerful and ever-growing networks of black Jews who struggled against racism and colonialism. A community whose claims are denied by many, black Jews have developed a strong sense of who they are as a unique people. In Parfitt's telling, forces of prejudice and the desire for new racial, redemptive identities converge, illuminating Jewish and black history alike in novel and unexplored ways.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674066987
ISBN-13
9780674066984
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117202296
Product Key Features
Book Title
Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Africa / General, Black Studies (Global), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Jewish Studies, Jewish
Publication Year
2013
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
220 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
7.4in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
13
Lc Classification Number
Ds135.A25p368 2012
Reviews
For at least the past two centuries, the majority of Jews were of European ancestry and could be broadly categorized as Caucasian. Yet, from Ethiopia to the Yemens to China, there existed individuals and communities of 'people of color' who were either Jewish or considered themselves linked to Jews culturally, even genetically... Parfitt has provided a well-researched and informative study of these groups and their place in the wider debates concerning the forging of religious and ethnic identities., Anyone interested in understanding how and why discussions of Africana Judaisms have such vast and varied participants'from Orthodox Rabbis to Pan-Africanist icons, from mouth-swabbing geneticists to human rights advocates'will find the answers in this masterful new offering from one of the world's most knowledgeable scholars on the topic., In this compact but compelling study, Parfitt presents a fascinating account of the origins of black Jews in the modern period., In this wide-ranging cultural examination of the intersections of blackness and Jewishness, [ Parfitt ] focuses primarily on blacks who claim, or have had ascribed to them by anthropologists and other intellectuals, Jewish origins or characteristics. Parfitt discusses the Beta Israel of Ethiopia and the Lemba of southern Africa (DNA testing has revealed that members of the Lemba have genetic links to Semitic peoples), as well as more ideologically driven movements, such as postimperial black African Jews...Supported by a large cast of thinkers and religious leaders, this brief but extensive look at a partly authentic, largely invented ethnic-religious identity will interest students of religion, race relations, and postcolonialism., Moving from Lost Tribes in Africa to Black Jews in the United States, and from Biblical narrative to modern genetic testing, Tudor Parfitt traces with verve and insight the ties that bind blacks and Jews in history and myth. A cogent and enlightening account of a pan-historical and international subject fraught with serious religious, racial, and cultural implications., Anyone interested in understanding how and why discussions of Africana Judaisms have such vast and varied participants'e"from Orthodox Rabbis to Pan-Africanist icons, from mouth-swabbing geneticists to human rights advocates'e"will find the answers in this masterful new offering from one of the world's most knowledgeable scholars on the topic., In this wide-ranging cultural examination of the intersections of blackness and Jewishness, [Parfitt] focuses primarily on blacks who claim, or have had ascribed to them by anthropologists and other intellectuals, Jewish origins or characteristics. Parfitt discusses the Beta Israel of Ethiopia and the Lemba of southern Africa (DNA testing has revealed that members of the Lemba have genetic links to Semitic peoples), as well as more ideologically driven movements, such as postimperial black African Jews... Supported by a large cast of thinkers and religious leaders, this brief but extensive look at a partly authentic, largely invented ethnic-religious identity will interest students of religion, race relations, and postcolonialism., In throwing light on the source of our beliefs, Parfitt makes transparently clear how prejudice and desire for status, to cite just two verities of human behavior, interact with ever-changing features of the political and economic landscape to transform human identities., In this wide'ranging cultural examination of the intersections of blackness and Jewishness, [ Parfitt ] focuses primarily on blacks who claim, or have had ascribed to them by anthropologists and other intellectuals, Jewish origins or characteristics. Parfitt discusses the Beta Israel of Ethiopia and the Lemba of southern Africa (DNA testing has revealed that members of the Lemba have genetic links to Semitic peoples), as well as more ideologically driven movements, such as postimperial black African Jews...Supported by a large cast of thinkers and religious leaders, this brief but extensive look at a partly authentic, largely invented ethnic'religious identity will interest students of religion, race relations, and postcolonialism.
Copyright Date
2012
Lccn
2012-018667
Dewey Decimal
305.892/406
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
Dewey Edition
23
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