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| Race And Religion Among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights | 
 enlarge | Author: Henry Goldschmidt
Publisher: Rutgers
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 281160
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 281
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0813538971
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8924074723
EAN: 9780813538976
ASIN: 0813538971
Publication Date: October 25, 2006
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Product 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 divide between Gentiles and Jews. Goldschmidt takes this collision of conceptual categories as an invitation to reimagine both "race" and "religion." By exploring the limits of categorical thought, he works to create space in American society for radical forms of cultural difference.
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This will blow your mind September 27, 2007
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This book will blow your mind. Let me come clean: I'm a close friend of Henry Goldschmidt's and I read drafts of this book as he wrote it. Hopefully, I can stay somewhat objective as I tell the world how much I love this book! Goldschmidt has written a fascinating account of everyday life on the streets of Crown Heights, focusing on all the ways that the groups who live there exist side-by-side but in different universes. The book takes us beneath the surface of easy concepts like "diversity" and "understanding" to show how people united and divided by race and religion forge tense, fragile compromises in everyday life. This is a very important book for anyone who loves Brooklyn, city folks in general, or just generally people who want their minds blown by the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction details of the culture and history of Crown Heights. Goldschmidt's work helps me understand the urban world around me (Philadelphia, not New York, but still...) in a wholly new and wonderful way.
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