Blackness in Israel

Uri Dorchin is a cultural anthropologist. His studies are focused on the socio-cultural aspects of popular culture and music, ethnicity, and racial thinking. He is currently a visiting assistant professor at the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA. Gabriella Djerrahian is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Her research engages with questions of race and racialization, diaspora, and belonging.

• Introduction Uri Dorchin and Gabriella Djerrahian Part I: Background: Predicaments of Jewishness and Blackness 1. The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture: An Overview Abraham Melamed 2. Jewishness, Blackness and Genetic Data: Israeli Geneticists and Physicians Tracing the Ancestry of Two African Populations Nurit Kirsh Part II: Blackness in the Jewish Israeli Society 3. Kinked Race and Ethiopian Jewish Blackness in Israel: An Ethnography Gabriella Djerrahian 4. Black-Israeli Lives Matter: Online Activism among Young Ethiopian Israelis Omer Keynan 5. Blackness in Translation: The Israeli Black Panthers, 1971 Oz Frankel 6. Blackness, Mizrahi Identity and Ethnic Shifting in Contemporary Israeli Popular Music Miranda L. Crowdus 7. A Different Hue of Blackness: The Haredi Case Nissim Leon Part III: Contested Blackness 8. "I Am Blacker than You": Mizrahiness and Ethiopianess in an Educational Boarding School in Israel Avihu Shoshana 9. Black City: Sounding Race, Territory and Belonging in Tel Aviv’s "African Refugee Crisis" Sarah Hankins 10. Trajectories of Soul Citizenship: African Dance Clubs between Global Blackness and Local Awareness Uri Dorchin 11. Already Black…and Proud, and Righteous: The African Hebrew Israelite Community in the State of Israel Fran Markowitz Part IV: Blackness and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 12. What is the Color of an Arab? A Critical View of Color Games Honaida Ghanim 13. What Color are Israeli Jews? Intersectionality, Israel Advocacy, and the Changing Discourse of Color and Indigeneity Michael R. Fischbach