{"id":53120,"date":"2017-03-30T19:36:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53120"},"modified":"2017-03-30T19:36:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:36:51","slug":"where-black-and-jewish-identity-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53120","title":{"rendered":"Where Black and Jewish Identity Merge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where Black and Jewish Identity Merge<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Forward<\/a>
\n2013-01-27<\/p>\n

Adam Langer<\/strong><\/a>, Culture Editor<\/p>\n

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\ncourtesy emily raboteau<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

Before they had finished their books, before Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts<\/a> had published \u201cHarlem Is Nowhere<\/a>\u201d \u2014 a finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award \u2014 and before Emily Raboteau<\/a> had published \u201cSearching for Zion<\/a>,\u201d which was published in January, the two women used to take walks together. They would amble past the George Washington Bridge<\/a>, the Morris-Jumel Mansion<\/a>, Jumel Terrace Books<\/a> and other landmarks in the Upper Manhattan<\/a> neighborhoods where both authors currently live.<\/p>\n

Both Raboteau and Rhodes-Pitts are young mothers in their 30s whose nonfiction books share a common theme: a yearning for some sort of promised land. For Rhodes-Pitts, whose book is the first in a planned trilogy about black utopias, that place is Harlem<\/a>; for Raboteau, it is not just one place, but a series of locations where displaced blacks have endeavored to find a homeland.<\/p>\n

Raboteau\u2019s journey began in Israel, where her best friend from childhood had moved to make aliyah<\/a>, but it also led her through such locations as Jamaica<\/a>, Ethiopia<\/a> and Ghana<\/a>, where she came to challenge some of her long-held assumptions about race and religion. The Forward\u2019s<\/em> Adam Langer invited the authors to have another conversation, this time at Emily Raboteau\u2019s office at City College where she teaches. The writers discussed parenthood, promised lands, and their thoughts on the relationship between blacks and Jews…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before they had finished their books, before Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts had published \u201cHarlem Is Nowhere\u201d \u2014 a finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award \u2014 and before Emily Raboteau had published \u201cSearching for Zion,\u201d which was published in January, the two women used to take walks together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[26724,2358,20566,26723,26725],"class_list":["post-53120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-adam-langer","tag-emily-raboteau","tag-forward","tag-sharifa-rhodes-pitts","tag-the-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53120","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=53120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53121,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53120\/revisions\/53121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}