Month: January 2013

  • The Myth of Race Argo-Navis 2012-11-27 154 pages 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 0786754362; ISBN-13: 978-0786754366 Jefferson M. Fish, Professor Emeritus of Psychology St. John’s University, New York City The Myth of Race deals concisely with a wide range of topics, from how the concept of race differs in different cultures and race…

  • Intermarriage and Multicultural Families My Jewish Learning 2012-12-13 Ruth Abusch-Magder, Rabbi-in-Residence Be’chol Lashon, San Francisco, California Like it or not, intermarriage is a fact in Jewish life. And for the most part the Jewish community has learned to live with it. Sure, different movements deal with it differently. Sure, some congregations are more adept and…

  • The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (review) Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Volume 31, Number 1, Fall 2012 pages 206-208 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2012.0123 Andrea Levine George Washington University This volume’s title signals its central critical intervention, a challenge to the masculine biases that have shaped studies of minstrelsy and of cross-racial…

  • In an era in which African Americans were oppressed and deprived of many of the rights and privileges of citizenship, Scott Bond rose from being born a slave in Madison County, Mississippi, in the early 1850s to wealth and status as a farmer, merchant, and business entrepreneur in Madison, Arkansas, by the early 1900s.