Black Jews in Africa and the Americas / Tudor Parfitt.
2013
DS135.A25
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Title
Black Jews in Africa and the Americas / Tudor Parfitt.
Author
Parfitt, Tudor, author.
ISBN
9780674067905
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (220 p.)
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10.4159/harvard.9780674067905 doi
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DS135.A25
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.892/406
Summary
Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race narratives over a millennium in which not only were Jews cast as black but black Africans were cast as Jews, Tudor Parfitt reveals a complex history of the interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses. For centuries, colonialists, travelers, and missionaries, in an attempt to explain and understand the strange people they encountered on the colonial frontier, labeled an astonishing array of African tribes, languages, and cultures as Hebrew, Jewish, or Israelite. Africans themselves came to adopt these identities as their own, invoking their shared histories of oppression, imagined blood-lines, and common traditional practices as proof of a racial relationship to Jews. Beginning in the post-slavery era, contacts between black Jews in America and their counterparts in Africa created powerful and ever-growing networks of black Jews who struggled against racism and colonialism. A community whose claims are denied by many, black Jews have developed a strong sense of who they are as a unique people. In Parfitt's telling, forces of prejudice and the desire for new racial, redemptive identities converge, illuminating Jewish and black history alike in novel and unexplored ways.
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The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
1 The Color of Jews
2 Lost Tribes of Israel in Africa
3 Ham's Children
4 Judaic Practices and Superior Stock
5 Half White and Half Black
6 The Emergence of Black Jews in the United States
7 Divine Geography and Israelite Identities
8 The Internalization of the Israelite Myth
9 History, Genetics, and Indigenous Black African Jews
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Preface
1 The Color of Jews
2 Lost Tribes of Israel in Africa
3 Ham's Children
4 Judaic Practices and Superior Stock
5 Half White and Half Black
6 The Emergence of Black Jews in the United States
7 Divine Geography and Israelite Identities
8 The Internalization of the Israelite Myth
9 History, Genetics, and Indigenous Black African Jews
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index