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1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- Race relations.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations.
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National Book Committee. |
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Race relations. |
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Relations with Jews.
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African Americans. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Relations with Jews. |
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Public opinion.
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Public opinion. |
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Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Attitudes.
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Jews. |
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Social conflict -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Social conflict. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Race and religion among the chosen peoples of Crown Heights. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006 0813538831 (DLC) 2005035534 (OCoLC)62615854 |
| ISBN |
0813544270 (electronic book) |
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9780813544274 (electronic book) |
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0813538831 |
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9780813538839 |
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0813538971 |
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9780813538976 |
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1281316490 |
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9781281316493 |
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