Henry Goldschmidt

Race and Religion Among the Chosen People of Crown Heights

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In August of 1991, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights was engulfed in violence. This work explores the everyday realities of difference in Crown Heights. It argues that identity formation is particularly complex in Crown Heights because the neighborhood's communities envision the conflict in remarkably diverse ways.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780813538976
• ISBN-10: 0813538971
• Artikelnr.: 21080865

Autorenporträt

Goldschmidt, Henry

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Prologue: "Blacks" and "Jews" at the Laundromat
Introduction: Race, Religion, and the Contest over Black-Jewish Difference
in Crown Heights
1 Collisions: Race and Religion, a Riot and a Program
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
Conclusion: "Stiffnecked Peoples" and American Multiculturalism
Notes
Index