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30.09.2024

[Séminaire - Les sciences sociales en question] Black Jews in America: a retrospective ethnography approach

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Le 30 septembre 2024 de 17:00 à 19:00

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Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE), Centre de recherches internationales (CERI)

Jews are generally seen as white and the notion of “black Jews” may seem a paradox. Yet, whether born Jews, converted, or tracing their historical Jewish roots to Africa or the Caribbean, the number of self-identified black Jews of African descent is in constant rise. Mixing in-depth interviews, historical records and retrospective ethnographic observation, the American sociologist Bruce Haynes retraces the diversity of their origins, outlining the complexity of their identities, and challenging the very boundaries of blackness and Jewishness.

Speaker

Bruce D. Haynes (University of California, Davis) works on racial and ethnic relations and urban communities. He has recently published: The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America, New York University Press, 2018;  Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family, Columbia University Press, 2017 (with Syma Solowitch) and “A member of the club? How Black Jews negotiate Black anti-semitism and Jewish racism”. Pp. 147-166 in Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about the "Jews" in the 21st Century. Efraim Sicher (Ed.), Berghahn Books.

Chair & Discussant

Nonna Mayer (Sciences Po, CEE, CNRS)

 

Scientific coordination

Samy Cohen, Sciences Po, CERI & Nonna Mayer, Sciences Po, CEE, CNRS 

À propos de cet événement

Le 30 septembre 2024 de 17:00 à 19:00

En ligne

Organisé par

Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE), Centre de recherches internationales (CERI)