Title Race and religion among the chosen peoples of Crown Heights / Henry Goldschmidt

Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) : illustrations Contents 1. Collisions: race and religion, a riot and a pogrom -- 2. Geographies of difference: producing a Jewish neighborhood -- 3. Kosher homes, racial boundaries: the politics of culinary and cultural exchange -- 4. White skin, black hats, and other signs of Jews -- 5. The voices of Jacob on the streets of Brooklyn: Israelite histories and identities Summary In the first major scholarly work to look beyond the sensationalized violence of August 1991, Henry Goldschmidt explores the everyday realities of Black-Jewish difference in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, he argues that collective identities like Blackness and Jewishness are particularly complex in today's Crown Heights because the neighborhood's Afro-Caribbean, African American, and Lubavitch Hasidic communities understand their differences in dramatically different ways--as a racial divide between Blacks and Whites or a religious di Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Relations with Jews African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Public opinion Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Attitudes Social conflict -- New York (State) -- New York SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans -- Public opinion African Americans -- Relations with Jews Jews -- Attitudes Race relations Social conflict Multikulturelle Gesellschaft Juden Schwarze Sozialer Konflikt SUBJECT Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- Race relations New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Crown Heights New York- Crown Heights Schwärze Juden. Form Electronic book ISBN 0813544270 9780813544274 9786611316495 6611316493

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