Policing Analogies Archives | Contending Modernities

On the Rhetoric of Jewish Solidarity: A Hebrew-Israelite’s Perspective

Rabbi Walter Isaac
February 9, 2021

In the desire to demonstrate that Jews are on the right side of history, the (white and non-white) Jewish community’s problems with racism are often ignored.

White Supremacists Among Us—Discomfiting but True

Series: Policing Analogies

Lewis R. Gordon
February 2, 2021February 3, 2021

The idea that “real Jew” must be white is a feature of unfortunate misrepresentations of Jewish people primarily during the twentieth century, with steam gathered in its support since the late 1960s.

Beyond Analogy

Series: Policing Analogies

Keith Feldman
November 18, 2020November 19, 2020

Solidarity is a practice, an action, whose condition of possibility is the messy materiality of social difference, not its flattening.

Analogies and Jewish Movement Spaces

Series: Policing Analogies

Shahar Zaken
October 1, 2020October 1, 2020

When we open ourselves to complexities we are less likely to force our notion of what liberation is onto others.

Ending Exile with the Prophetic Voice of the Diasporic Jew

Series: Policing Analogies

Susannah Heschel
September 25, 2020September 25, 2020

Can there be a prophetic voice today without diaspora?

The Price of (non) Whiteness

Series: Policing Analogies

Shaul Magid
September 18, 2020September 25, 2020

Are American Jews willing to forfeit some of that privilege, whatever that might mean, as a gesture to those whose who cannot “pass” into the space of whiteness?

Black Jews Matter: Solidarity Begins Beyond the Limits of Whiteness

Series: Policing Analogies

Amanda Mbuvi
September 16, 2020September 22, 2020

The problem is not my sense of self or belonging, but the way that my very existence unsettles the carefully circumscribed categories that for so many people pass for reality.

Introduction to Policing Analogies

Series: Policing Analogies

Atalia Omer and Santiago Slabodsky
September 16, 2020September 25, 2020

The interrogation of normative representation and the creation of multi-racial and multi-gendered spaces are inadvertently rendered invisible and inaudible within the anti-analogizing stance.

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