Black, Jewish and Interracial: It's Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin

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Summary: A Necessary Disruption Of The Status Quo
Review: Gibel Azoulay enters the discourse on race at a pivotal point in history, when debates over the reconfiguration of census/socio-political categories and developments in the so called "mixed race" literature threaten to turn back the clocks to a sanitized version of Jim Crow. The author's voice is a refreshing and insightful alternative to those who wish to ignore history for the sake of those "mixed race" individuals hoping to 'escape' blackness. Gibel Azoulay's insistence upon maintaining dual cultural identities (Jewish and Black) must make a number of theorists and laymen incredibly uncomfortable. With impeccable scholarship and an original theoretical base she achieves a radical positioning, refusing to the embrace the idealized notions of racelessness put forth by Appiah and others, at the same time resisting the pure essentialization of the Afrocentrists. This is an important, noteworthy contribution. Great Job!

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Summary: This is my mom's book
Review: My mother is Dr. Katya Gibel Azoulay and I've read some of her book. I think she is one of the smartest people I know, and if you want to research on interracial families, you need to read this book. Good job Mommy!

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Summary: Author's devotion to hypodescent ruined the book
Review: The author could have made a great contribution to both Jewish and "mixed-race" literature IF she had not been so devoted to the "one drop" myth of forced hypodescent. The author is a Jew but she is NOT a "black" one. She even tries to label her Israeli-born sons (by a "white" Jewish husband) "black"! Give us a break! Didn't she learn anything from the Nuremberg Laws? Why is she trying to enforce an American version of them?

Rating:
Summary: A Necessary Disruption Of The Status Quo
Review: The author could have made a great contribution to both Jewish and "mixed-race" literature IF she had not been so devoted to the "one drop" myth of forced hypodescent. The author is a Jew but she is NOT a "black" one. She even tries to label her Israeli-born sons (by a "white" Jewish husband) "black"! Give us a break! Didn't she learn anything from the Nuremberg Laws? Why is she trying to enforce an American version of them?