Black Jews in Africa and the Americas

Name: Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
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ISBN: 9780674066984

ISBN-10: 0674066987

ISBN-13: 9780674066984

Edition: 2012

Authors: Tudor Parfitt

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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.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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/4/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface



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


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index