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Cabo Verdean diaspora; Afro-Jewish identity; Judaism; southeastern New England; critical race theory; interpretive anthropology
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Negotiating Afro-Jewish Identity In The Cabo Verdean Diaspora, Alma Gottlieb
Negotiating Afro-Jewish Identity In The Cabo Verdean Diaspora, Alma Gottlieb
Journal of Cape Verdean Studies
In this paper, I explore how diasporic Cabo Verdean-Americans with Jewish ancestry (especially those living in the New England region of the U.S.) experience their racially and spiritually mixed (and doubly or even triply stigmatized) identity. Being African in (racist) North America presents enormous challenges. Being Jewish in (increasingly anti-Semitic) North America presents different but somewhat parallel challenges. To account for unexpected identity crossings, I combine critical race theory with a Geertzian approach to understanding social worlds. In chronicling the experiences of Cape Verdeans who embrace divergent components of their multi-layered racial and spiritual heritage, I consider whether Cabo Verdeans …