Publication

2006 - Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

70,250 words, Guess

Page Count

281 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveracereligionamon00gold
  • ISBN-139780813538839
  • ISBN-139780813538976
  • ISBN-100813538831
  • ISBN-100813538971
and 5 more
  • LibraryThing5415936
  • Goodreads1203367
  • Library of Congress Control Number2005035534
  • Better World Books9780813538839
  • Open LibraryOL3419127M

Classifications

  • DDC305.892/4074723
  • LCCF128.68.C76 G65 2006
  • LCCF128.68.C76G65 2006

Description

In the first major scholarly work to look beyond the sensationalized violence of August 1991, Henry Goldschmidt explores the everyday realities of Black-Jewish difference in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, he argues that collective identities like Blackness and Jewishness are particularly complex in today's Crown Heights because the neighborhood's Afro-Caribbean, African American, and Lubavitch Hasidic communities understand their differences in dramatically different ways--as a racial divide between Blacks and Whites or a religious di.

Subjects

Topics

JewsAttitudesRace relationsPublic opinionSocial conflictAfrican AmericansJews, united states

Other Editions

  • Race and religion among the chosen peoples of Crown HeightsRutgers University Press2006

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