Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic

Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780804787901
ISBN-13 : 0804787905
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Book Synopsis Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic by : Kimberly A. Arkin

Download or read book Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic written by Kimberly A. Arkin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the course of her fieldwork in Paris, anthropologist Kimberly Arkin heard what she thought was a surprising admission. A French-born, North African Jewish (Sephardi) teenage girl laughingly told Arkin she was a racist. When asked what she meant by that, the girl responded, "It means I hate Arabs." This girl was not unique. She and other Sephardi youth in Paris insisted, again and again, that they were not French, though born in France, and that they could not imagine their Jewish future in France. Fueled by her candid and compelling informants, Arkin's analysis delves into the connections and disjunctures between Jews and Muslims, religion and secular Republicanism, race and national community, and identity and culture in post-colonial France. Rhinestones argues that Sephardi youth, as both "Arabs" and "Jews," fall between categories of class, religion, and culture. Many reacted to this liminality by going beyond religion and culture to categorize their Jewishness as race, distinguishing Sephardi Jews from "Arab" Muslims, regardless of similarities they shared, while linking them to "European" Jews (Ashkenazim), regardless of their differences. But while racializing Jewishness might have made Sephardi Frenchness possible, it produced the opposite result: it re-grounded national community in religion-as-race, thereby making pluri-religious community appear threatening. Rhinestones thus sheds light on the production of race, alienation, and intolerance within marginalized French and European populations.


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