The Paradox of Diversity in the Israeli Academia: Reproducing White Jewishness and National Supremacy

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Title: The Paradox of Diversity in the Israeli Academia: Reproducing White Jewishness and National Supremacy
Language: English
Authors: Abu-Rabia-Queder, Sarab
Source: Race, Ethnicity and Education. 2022 25(2):231-248.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 18
Publication Date: 2022
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Diversity, Jews, College Students, Student Diversity, Racial Discrimination, Immigrants, Whites
Geographic Terms: Israel, Ethiopia
DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2019.1694502
ISSN: 1361-3324
Abstract: This paper claims that policies designed to promote diversity and provide Ethiopian Jews with opportunities in Israeli institutions of higher learning create a paradox where, rather than diversifying student bodies and faculties in universities, they bolster the reproduction of national and religious supremacy of white Jews in the Israeli academia. Interviews with 50 Ethiopian students reveal that the racialized cultural indexes on which Israeli society structures its racialized attitudes towards Ethiopian immigrants have not been purged from university campuses. Instead, I argue, they continue to suffuse and shape those very programs designed to combat them by reinventing Jewish privilege and national exclusivity in Israeli universities.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2022
Accession Number: EJ1332110
Database: ERIC
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