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Race and religion among the chosen peoples of Crown Heights /

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 identiti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldschmidt, Henry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.