Jewish locations : traversing racialized landscapes / edited by Lisa Tessman and Bat-Ami Bar On.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tessman, Lisa, 1966-

Bar On, Bat-Ami, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Physical Description:

iv, 251 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2001]

Contents:

1 Race Studies and Jewish Studies: Toward a Critical Meeting Ground / Bat-Ami Bar On, Lisa Tessman 1

Part I Figuring the Self

2 Terminal Moraine / Naomi Scheman 17

3 Phenomenology of a Hyphenated Consciousness / Sandra Lee Bartky 33

4 Self-Identity and Group Identities: Reflections of a Half-Jewish Immigrant / Richard Schmitt 51

Part II Jewishness (Not) in Black and White

5 In Search of Self and Other: A Few Remarks on Ethnicity, Race, and Ethiopian Jews / Hagar Salamon 75

6 Jewish Identity and the Politics of a (Multi)Racial Category / Katya Gibel Azoulay 89

7 Notes from the (Shifting) Middle: Some Ways of Looking at Jews / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz 115

8 Jewish Racializations: Revealing the Contingency of Whiteness / Lisa Tessman 131

Part III Negotiations with Otherness

9 The Price of Jewish Americanization / Victor Silverman 149

10 Passing Through: Jew as Black in the International Sweethearts of Rhythm / Laurie Zoloth 169

11 On the State of Being (Jewish) between "Orient" and "Occident" / Edith Haddad Shaked, Bat-Ami Bar On 185

Part IV Thinking through Jewish Texts

12 Non-Jewish Jewish Identity and Martin Buber / Naomi Zack 203

13 To Race, to Class, to Queer: Jewish Contributions to Feminist Theory / Marla Brettschneider 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0847696545

0847696553

OCLC:

45749822