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Life Between Two Zions: The Beta Israel And Their Experience Of Multiple Diasporas, Alexander Peeples
Life Between Two Zions: The Beta Israel And Their Experience Of Multiple Diasporas, Alexander Peeples
Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History
There are several communities at the intersection of both the African and Jewish Diasporas, but the largest is a community of Ethiopian Jews known as the Beta Israel who have primarily resided in Israel since the 1980s. As a group that is defined by multiple homelands and overlapping oppressions, their experience provides a unique demonstration of the limits and possibilities of diasporic identities in explaining and defining the modern world. In particular, the recent experiences of the Beta Israel draw attention to the limits of essentializing identity, collective notions of shared oppression, and inert understandings of place. The work of …
Nationalism Through Insecurity: Why 1979 Iranian Revolution Started?, Ryan Schweitzer
Nationalism Through Insecurity: Why 1979 Iranian Revolution Started?, Ryan Schweitzer
Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History
Nationalism and revolutions are highly volatile processes and typically can be seen as attempts to create a unified society. While Iranian nationalism may be a creation of religious and academic elites, religious zeal and intellectual enlightenment cannot be the sole, or even strongest, explanation. However, with Iran, the nationalism was evoked not out of a desire to necessarily create a new nation, but instead to create an independent nation out of the control of Western powers, particularly the United States. The United States was forcefully creating new cultural identities and Westernized lifestyles, which some Iranians viewed as a security concern …