{"id":1312,"date":"2009-10-04T00:41:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T00:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2013-05-01T00:42:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T00:42:16","slug":"people-of-god-children-of-ham-making-blacks-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1312","title":{"rendered":"People of God, Children of Ham: Making black(s) Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/14725880902949551\" target=\"_blank\">People of God, Children of Ham: Making black(s) Jews<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/cmjs20\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Modern Jewish Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/cmjs20\/8\/2\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 8, Issue 2<\/a> (July 2009)<br \/>\npages 237 &#8211; 254<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/14725880902949551\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/14725880902949551<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.ucdavis.edu\/people\/bdhaynes\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Haynes<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Davis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taxonomies inherited from the nineteenth century have shaped the discourse surrounding the racial identity and supposed roots of Ethiopian immigrants to Israel. Through their interactions with just a few colonial actors, some of whom were Christian missionaries, others who were Jewish Zionists, a small group of young Falashas developed an elite status in Ethiopia as the true lost Jews in Africa. While most historians specializing in the history of Ethiopia do not believe the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beta_Israel\" target=\"_blank\">Beta Israel<\/a> are a \u201clost tribe\u201d of the ancient Israelites, <strong>Ethiopian immigrants have altered their self-conceptions over the past hundred years and come to see themselves as both black and Jewish.<\/strong>\u00a0 This essay offers an alternative reading of the Beta Israel narrative, and asserts that the transformation of their social identities are embedded in a political process of racialization tied to racial ideology, and both secular and religious institutions and the State. In the process of incorporation into western society, their social identities have been transmogrified from religious others in Ethiopia to co-religionists yet racial others in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/14725880902949551\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People of God, Children of Ham: Making black(s) Jews Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Volume 8, Issue 2 (July 2009) pages 237 &#8211; 254 DOI: 10.1080\/14725880902949551 Bruce Haynes, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Davis Taxonomies inherited from the nineteenth century have shaped the discourse surrounding the racial identity and supposed roots of Ethiopian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,459,3601,8,820],"tags":[110,261,29,262],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-history","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","tag-bruce-haynes","tag-falashas","tag-jewish","tag-journal-of-modern-jewish-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}