{"id":57438,"date":"2019-02-01T16:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57438"},"modified":"2019-02-02T04:16:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T04:16:18","slug":"pride-no-prejudice-were-young-jewish-and-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57438","title":{"rendered":"Pride, no prejudice: we’re young, Jewish and black"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pride, no prejudice: we’re young, Jewish and black<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Jewish Chronicle<\/a>
\nLondon, United Kingdom
\n2019-01-31<\/p>\n

Karen Glaser<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Yasmin<\/a>
\nYasmin Bowen (left) and Vivien Sinclair (Photo: Benjamin Mole)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Drake<\/a>, Sophie Okenado<\/a> and Craig David<\/a>: three big name examples of Jews who are black. So why do so many people assume all Jews are white? Karen Glaser met some teens who challenge that stereotype.<\/em><\/p>\n

On Shabbat<\/a>, frummers<\/a> often stop Lia Grant on the streets of the Jewish neighbourhood where she lives and ask her to ring doorbells and switch on ovens for them. They preface their requests with a quick explanation of Shabbat and the type of work they are prohibited from doing on Judaism\u2019s<\/a> day of rest.<\/p>\n

However, what they do not know is that far from being a potential Shabbos goy<\/a>, Lia is a fellow Jew. So by asking her to work, her frum<\/a> interlocutors are inadvertently committing a serious transgression: they are entreating someone who is obligated to keep Shabbat, to violate it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I tell them I\u2019m Jewish, very awkward shock washes over their faces,\u201d says the JCoss<\/a> sixth former whose mother is Jewish, Israeli and Nigerian, and whose father is Nigerian and Scottish.<\/p>\n

It was a similar story when Lia first joined the Jewish secondary. \u201cAre you Jewish?\u201d her classmates would ask her. And six years later, her intersectional identity often elicits a similar response from non-Jews: \u201cWow! There\u2019s such a thing as a black Jew?\u201d…<\/p>\n

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

Drake, Sophie Okenado and Craig David: three big name examples of Jews who are black. So why do so many people assume all Jews are white? Karen Glaser met some teens who challenge that stereotype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,3601,8,820,10],"tags":[29353,29354,81,29350,29351,29352,29349,29348,29347],"class_list":["post-57438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-uk","tag-charis-crawford-corri","tag-dena-wilson","tag-england","tag-jewish-chronicle","tag-lia-grant","tag-the-jc","tag-the-jewish-chronicle","tag-vivien-sinclair","tag-yasmin-bowen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57438","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=57438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57442,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57438\/revisions\/57442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}