Jewish-American Identity and Critical Intercultural Communication

Never Forget, Tikkun Olam, and Kindness to Strangers

Miriam Shoshana Sobre (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

364 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0518-4 (ISBN)

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Jewish-American Identity and Critical Intercultural Communication: Never Forget, Tikkun Olam, and Kindness to Strangers explores what it means to be Jewish on a personal, sociocultural, and global-political level. This book employs 50+ interviews with diverse Jewish voices to provide a history of Jewish migration to the US and to privilege voices that are not necessarily White and Eastern European/Ashkenazic. Sobré argues for a more inclusive form of intercultural theorizing that favors intersectionality and allyship over oppression Olympics (stereotypes between members of different nondominant groups) and colorism (within nondominant group discrimination). Such siloing of differences, and further competing about whose differences are the most egregious, minimizes critical intercultural coalition opportunities allowing for such groups as those who gave power to Trump and Netanyahu to connect while inclusive progressives engage in in-fighting and separatism. The author calls for transversal dialogic politics, racially and historically accurate school curriculum, intersectionality and more inclusive intercultural communication scholarship and practice as various means of working together against white nationalism and white supremacy in the US and the world. Scholars of religious studies, cultural anthropology, and intercultural communication will find this book of particular interest.

Miriam Shoshana Sobré is assistant professor of instruction at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Table Of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Point of the Exercise

Section I: Jews and Jewish Life in US America

Chapter 1: Definitions, History and Demographics of Jewish Americans

Chapter 2: Rootless Cosmopolitans Find Roots: Socioeconomics, Education and Social Justice of Jewish Life in US America

Chapter 3: Antisemitism, Zionism, Israel, and Acceptance: Jews in the US American 20th Century Through Today

Section II: Theoretical Framework for the Study

Chapter 4: Critical Intercultural Communication and Jewish American Life – A Framework for Analysis and Critique

Chapter 5: Never Forget, Scattered People and Israel: Jews within a Postcolonial Context

Section III: US American Jewish Voices and the Stories of Jewish American Identity

Chapter 6: Laying the Groundwork for the Study

Chapter 7: A Mosaic of Jewish Identity

Chapter 8: Ashkenormativity and Critical Intercultural Communication

Chapter 9: Strange Bedfellows: US American Jews and Israel

Chapter 10: Never Forget and Never Again

Glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish Terms

Appendices

References

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	29.10.2022
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 236 mm
Gewicht	671 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-7936-0518-1 / 1793605181
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-0518-4 / 9781793605184
Zustand	Neuware