Black, Jewish, and Interracial ：It’s Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity

Publication subTitle ：It’s Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity

Author： Katya Gibel Mevorach  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 1997

E-ISBN: 9780822382300

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822319719

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822319757

Subject： K81 Biography;K82 China

Keyword： African Americans -- Relations with Jews., African Americans -- Race identity., Jews -- Identity., Racially mixed people -- United States.

Language： ENG

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How do adult children of interracial parents—where one parent is Jewish and one is Black—think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay’s Black, Jewish, and Interracial. Motivated by her own experience as the child of a Jewish mother and Jamaican father, Gibel Azoulay blends historical, theoretical, and personal perspectives to explore the possibilities and meanings that arise when Black and Jewish identities merge. As she asks what it means to be Black, Jewish, and interracial, Gibel Azoulay challenges deeply ingrained assumptions about identity and moves toward a consideration of complementary racial identities.
Beginning with an examination of the concept of identity as it figures in philosophical and political thought, Gibel Azoulay moves on to consider and compare the politics and traditions of the Black and Jewish experience in America. Her inquiry draws together such diverse subjects as Plessy v. Ferguson, the Leo Frank case, "passing," intermarriage, civil rights, and anti-Semitism. The paradoxical presence of being both Black and Jewish, she argues, leads questions of identity, identity politics, and diversity in a new direction as it challenges distinct notions of whiteness and blackness. Rising above familiar notions of identity crisis and cultural confrontation, she offers new insights into the discourse of race and multiculturalism as she suggests that identity can be a more en

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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Prelude: Identities and the Logic of Coupling

Prelude: Identities and the Logic of Coupling

Prelude: Identities and the Logic of Coupling

1. Perspectives on Identity/ies

1. Perspectives on Identity/ies

1. Perspectives on Identity/ies

2. Contexts, Social Categories, and Conditions of Possibility

2. Contexts, Social Categories, and Conditions of Possibility

2. Contexts, Social Categories, and Conditions of Possibility

3. Black, Jewish, and Interracial (I)

3. Black, Jewish, and Interracial (I)

3. Black, Jewish, and Interracial (I)

4. Black, Jewish, and Interracial (II)

4. Black, Jewish, and Interracial (II)

4. Black, Jewish, and Interracial (II)

Coda

Coda

Coda

References

References

References

Index

Index

Index

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