The Thomas and Diann Mann Israel Series: Race and Ethnicity in Israel
Blackness in Israel
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
Gabriella Djerrahian, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University
Uri Dorchin, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the Academic College in Zefat, Israel
This talk will explore contemporary inflections of blackness in Israel and foreground them in the historical geographies of Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Modern forms of blackness include boundary-making, boundary-breaking, and boundary-re-making in contemporary Israel, underscoring the deep historical roots of contemporary understandings of race, blackness, and Jewishness.
While race has been discussed as it pertains to Judaism at large, and Israeli society in particular, blackness as a conceptual tool divorced from individual characteristics, skin tone and even music has yet to be explored.
Email fireman.2@osu.edu for the zoom link.
Supported by the Thomas and Diann Mann Israel program fund.
(photo: Mahane Yehuda market in Israel. Credit: My Jewish Learning)