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Efraim Sicher (Ed.) - Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about ´Jews´ in the Twenty-First Century - 9780857458926 - V9780857458926
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Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about ´Jews´ in the Twenty-First Century

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Description for Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about ´Jews´ in the Twenty-First Century Hardback. Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and technological innovations has taken on racial overtones, such as attributing inherited physiological traits to certain ethnic groups or using DNA testing to determine biological links with ethnic ancestry. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 684.

Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and technological innovations has taken on racial overtones, such as attributing inherited physiological traits to certain ethnic groups or using DNA testing to determine biological links with ethnic ancestry. This book contributes to the discussion by opening up previously locked concepts of the relation between the terms color, race, and “Jews”, and by engaging with globalism, multiculturalism, hybridity, and diaspora. The contributors—leading scholars in anthropology, sociology, history, literature, and cultural studies—discuss how it is not merely a question of whether Jews are acknowledged to be ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
364
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
684g
Number of Pages
398
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857458926
SKU
V9780857458926
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Ref
99-15

About Efraim Sicher (Ed.)
Efraim Sicher is Professor of Comparative and English Literature at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He has published essays and books on modern Jewish culture, Holocaust memory, and anti-Semitism. His most recent books are The Holocaust Novel (2005), Babel in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity (2012), Rereading the City / Rereading Dickens (2nd edition 2012), and ... Read more

Reviews for Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about ´Jews´ in the Twenty-First Century
“If the reader, after closing this volume, remains uncertain or confused about the fundamental questions related to Jews and race (though not Jews and color), this is because fundamental questions appear to remain unresolved. Overall, the essays do a marvelous job in both illustrating and illuminating this confusion.” · Studies in Contemporary Jewry “An excellent text that ... Read more

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