Black Jews in Africa and the Americas [electronic resource] / Tudor Parfitt.
2013
DS135.A25 P368 2013eb
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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas [electronic resource] / Tudor Parfitt.
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9780674067905 electronic book
9780674066984 hardcover
9780674066984 hardcover
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
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English
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1 online resource (xiii, 225 p.)
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DS135.A25 P368 2013eb
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305.892/406
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"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."--Jacket flap.
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Table of Contents
The color of Jews
Lost tribes of Israel in Africa
Ham's children
Judaic practices and superior stock
Half white and half black
The emergence of Black Jews in the United States
Divine geography and Israelite identities
The internalization of the Israelite myth
History, genetics, and indigenous Black African Jews.
Lost tribes of Israel in Africa
Ham's children
Judaic practices and superior stock
Half white and half black
The emergence of Black Jews in the United States
Divine geography and Israelite identities
The internalization of the Israelite myth
History, genetics, and indigenous Black African Jews.