Efraim (Hrsg.) Sicher

Race, Color, Identity

Rethinking Discourses about 'Jews' in the Twenty-First Century

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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 ho… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-85745-892-6
EAN: 9780857458926
Produktnummer: 16718119
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.6 cm 730 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 730

Über den Autor

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 Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the a¿¿Jewa¿¿ in Contemporary British Writing (with Linda Weinhouse, 2012).