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Fashioning Jewishness in a Black and White World
Publication Date: January 2007
Publisher(s): Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Jewish Studies
Author(s): Eric Goldstein; Eric Goldstein
Series: AJS Perspectives: The Newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies, Fall 2007, pp.26-28.
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Culture and religion (Religion and religious groups)
Culture and religion (Multiculturalism and cultural relations)
Keywords: Race; Culture; Jewish Identification; Community Relations
Type: Report
Coverage: United States United States
Abstract:
The author compares and contrasts modern examples of young Jews appropriating or borrowing from African-American culture with examples of similar phenomena from generations past. The contemporary phenomenon, the author asserts, is rooted in different circumstances and in a different kind of aspiration.