LEADER 03915nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910785904603321 005 20230803024942.0 010 $a0-674-07150-6 010 $a0-674-06790-8 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674067905 035 $a(CKB)2670000000310157 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25018198 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000819023 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11430466 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819023 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10842718 035 $a(PQKB)11049752 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301201 035 $a(DE-B1597)178049 035 $a(OCoLC)1013936561 035 $a(OCoLC)840437411 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674067905 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301201 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10649620 035 $a(OCoLC)819325468 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000310157 100 $a20120507d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlack Jews in Africa and the Americas$b[electronic resource] /$fTudor Parfitt 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages) 225 0 $aThe Nathan I. Huggins Lectures 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a0-674-06698-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe color of Jews -- Lost tribes of Israel in Africa -- Ham's children -- Judaic practices and superior stock -- Half white and half black -- The emergence of Black Jews in the United States -- Divine geography and Israelite identities -- The internalization of the Israelite myth -- History, genetics, and indigenous Black African Jews. 330 $aBlack Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race narratives over a millennium in which not only were Jews cast as black but black Africans were cast as Jews, Tudor Parfitt reveals a complex history of the interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses. For centuries, colonialists, travelers, and missionaries, in an attempt to explain and understand the strange people they encountered on the colonial frontier, labeled an astonishing array of African tribes, languages, and cultures as Hebrew, Jewish, or Israelite. Africans themselves came to adopt these identities as their own, invoking their shared histories of oppression, imagined blood-lines, and common traditional practices as proof of a racial relationship to Jews. Beginning in the post-slavery era, contacts between black Jews in America and their counterparts in Africa created powerful and ever-growing networks of black Jews who struggled against racism and colonialism. A community whose claims are denied by many, black Jews have developed a strong sense of who they are as a unique people. In Parfitt's telling, forces of prejudice and the desire for new racial, redemptive identities converge, illuminating Jewish and black history alike in novel and unexplored ways. 606 $aJews$zAfrica$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Jews 606 $aAfrican American Jews$xHistory 607 $aAfrica$xHistory 607 $aAfrica$xColonial influence$xHistory 607 $aAfrica$xEthnic relations 607 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations 615 0$aJews$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Jews. 615 0$aAfrican American Jews$xHistory. 676 $a305.892/406 700 $aParfitt$b Tudor$0540152 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785904603321 996 $aBlack Jews in Africa and the Americas$93726856 997 $aUNINA