Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
Race, Religion, and the Affective Sources of Jewish Identity
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-769183-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
What does race feel like? What does race make people feel? Ghost People traces the haunting feelings that constitute race as a structural, social, and psychic experience in modern European history by focusing on the case of Jewish racialization. Taking a theoretical cue from W.E.B. Du Bois' question in the Souls of Black Folk, "How does it feel to be a problem?" Paul E. Nahme queries the affective experience of racial formation and reframes how we should think and talk about the Jewish Question. He explores the ways feeling and emotion have colored the lives of different people in social, political, and psycho-social dimensions. From Enlightenment constructions of rational humanism, to nineteenth-century colonialism, antisemitism and the racialization of Jews in Europe, to the construction of Judaism as a religion and the disavowal of racial categories in liberal secularism, Nahme asks after the enduring problem of race for Jewish identity, and for how Jews have remained haunted by the specter of race in the modern world.
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- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Racial Affect, Spectral Jewishness, and the Haunting of Racial Modernity
- Chapter 2: Disavowing Other Worlds: Affect, Fetishism, and Racialized Religion in Nineteenth Century Europe
- Chapter 3: "The one human life that I know best": Racial Affects in W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Buber
- Chapter 4: Race and the Theologico-Politcal Problem of Affect
- Conclusion: Ghost People
- Bibliography
