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Diasporic Identities In Israel: A Study Of Ethiopian Jews, Erich S. Roberts
Diasporic Identities In Israel: A Study Of Ethiopian Jews, Erich S. Roberts
Anthropology Department Honors Papers
Contemporary concerns of anthropology stress the role of power relations in framing the study of a marginalized people within society. In this study, the present predicament of the Ethiopian community in Israel is examined through the highly political processes of nationalism, ethnic conflict, and identity construction. Each of these factors hold implications for the ways by which a dominant European nationalist ideology in Israel has come to impose forces of authority upon subjugated, non-European ethnic groups. The Ethiopians are one such group. The point of divergence between the community of Ethiopian Jews and Israel’s national identity has caused the Ethiopian …