Ghosted: Jewishness and the Haunted Hegemony of Racial Modernity

In this article, I introduce affect as a theoretical paradigm for describing and understanding the logic of racialization by focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century discourses of religion, Orientalism, and civic equality, and the specific case of Jewish racialization. Describing...

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Main Author: Nahme, Paul E. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2022
In: The journal of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 102, Issue: 2, Pages: 204-236
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