{"id":62896,"date":"2022-02-01T03:59:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T03:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62896"},"modified":"2022-02-01T04:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T04:37:44","slug":"once-we-were-slaves-examines-fluidity-of-race-through-a-jewish-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62896","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Once We Were Slaves\u2019 examines fluidity of race through a Jewish lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/481714\/once-we-were-slaves-examines-fluidity-of-race-through-a-jewish-lens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>\u2018Once We Were Slaves\u2019 examines fluidity of race through a Jewish lens<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forward<\/a><br \/>\n2022-01-28<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/taressastovall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TaRessa Stovall<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/481714\/once-we-were-slaves-examines-fluidity-of-race-through-a-jewish-lens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 98%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.forwardcdn.com\/image\/1090x480\/center\/images\/cropped\/cover-owwscropped-1643411748.jpeg\"><\/a><figcaption style=\"width: 98%; display: block; font-size: x-small;\"><em>Courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lauraleibman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laura Arnold Leibman<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Have you heard the story of the Jewish mother and children who were born enslaved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caribbean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caribbean<\/a> and became some of the wealthiest Jews in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lauraleibman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laura Arnold Leibman<\/a> was researching Jewish communities in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barbados\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barbados<\/a> when she discovered two small ivory portraits belonging to a Jewish heiress from New York. She traced the family\u2019s ancestors back to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bridgetown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridgetown, Barbados<\/a> in the 1700s. But instead of discovering an exclusively <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sephardi_Jews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sephardic<\/a> ancestry, she uncovered a much more complex story of a diverse Jewish family whose identities were impacted by time and place.<\/p>\n<p>Her findings became the book, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family<\/a>.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/481714\/once-we-were-slaves-examines-fluidity-of-race-through-a-jewish-lens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Once We Were Slaves\u2019 examines fluidity of race through a Jewish lens Forward 2022-01-28 TaRessa Stovall Courtesy of Laura Arnold Leibman Have you heard the story of the Jewish mother and children who were born enslaved in the Caribbean and became some of the wealthiest Jews in New York? Professor Laura Arnold Leibman was researching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,3601,8,6462,820,6940,20],"tags":[32846,13473,20566,32070,32053,32073,2711,596,32845,32844,23102,32847],"class_list":["post-62896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-religion","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-abraham-rodrigues-brandon","tag-barbados","tag-forward","tag-isaac-lopez-brandon","tag-laura-arnold-leibman","tag-laura-leibman","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-sarah-ester-lopez","tag-sarah-rodrigues-brandon","tag-taressa-stovall","tag-victoria-fulcher-raggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62896","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=62896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62908,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62896\/revisions\/62908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}