Race and Religion Among the Chosen People 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldschmidt, Henry
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sozialer Konflikt
Schwarze
Juden
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Social conflict.
Race relations.
Jews > Attitudes.
African Americans > Relations with Jews.
African Americans > Public opinion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Juifs > New York (État) > New York > Attitudes.
Noirs americains > New York (État) > New York > Opinion publique.
Noirs americains > New York (État) > New York > Relations avec les Juifs.
Social conflict > New York (State) > New York.
Jews > New York (State) > New York > Attitudes.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Public opinion.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Relations with Jews.
Schwarze.
Juden.
New York- Crown Heights
New York (State) > New York > Crown Heights.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Race relations.
Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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