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Title: Reviewing the Situation: Jewish and Black Identities--Inventing Strangers
Language: English
Authors: Woolf, Michael
Source: Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad. Apr 2020 32(2):72-93.
Availability: Frontiers Journal. Dickinson College P.O. Box 1773, Carlisle, PA 17013. Tel: 717-254-8858; Fax: 717-245-1677; Web site: https://www.frontiersjournal.org/index.php/Frontiers
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 22
Publication Date: 2020
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Jews, Self Concept, Ethnicity, Race, Student Attitudes, Racial Bias, Misconceptions, Stereotypes, Intellectual Development, African Americans, Blacks, Social Class, Intergroup Relations, Racial Identification, United States History, Social Justice, Racial Attitudes, Alienation, Judaism, Christianity, Biblical Literature, Foreign Countries, Musicians, Civil Rights, Study Abroad, Clergy, Literature
Geographic Terms: Israel
ISSN: 1085-4568
Abstract: Dominant national myths create versions of reality that we need to deconstruct if we are to take students beyond stereotype. Using the USA as an example, histories that do not align with critical national narratives become silenced or muted. Preoccupation with Black and White dichotomies is just such a narrative that has hidden the significance of class; the idea of the USA as a haven for the stranger similarly blurs a long history of anti-Semitism. The essay demonstrates that collective identities are constructs not objective realities. They devolve from myths, acts of imagination, seductive narratives. A transition from myth to history, from archetypal dream to reality, reveals complexities that subvert simplistic stereotypes. Conventional assumptions about ethnicity and race need to be subject to deconstruction; if exported abroad they are likely to bring confusion rather than clarity. In these circumstances, destabilizing student perceptions is an intellectual imperative.
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Entry Date: 2020
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