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

 
9780857458926: Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses About "Jews" in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN 10: 0857458922 ISBN 13: 9780857458926
Casa editrice: Berghahn Books, 2013

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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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Informazioni sugli autori

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).



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).

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Editore
Berghahn Books
Data di pubblicazione
2013
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0857458922
ISBN 13 
9780857458926
Rilegatura
Rilegatura all'americana
Numero di pagine
380
Redattore
Sicher Efraim
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9781782382072: Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses About "Jews" in the Twenty-First Century

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  1782382070 ISBN 13:  9781782382072
Casa editrice: Berghahn Books, 2015
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