Race and religion among the chosen peoples of Crown Heights

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

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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Main Author: Goldschmidt, Henry
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
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
Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) > Race relations.
New York (N.Y.) > Race relations.
New York (State) > New York
New York (State) > New York > Crown Heights
New York- Crown Heights
Schwärze
Juden.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) : illustrations
Format: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.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index.
ISBN:0813544270
9780813544274
9786611316495
6611316493
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized

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