Speculations that Italian Americans ’ problematic hero, Christopher Columbus, might have actually been Jewish were all over the news this month, with coverage ranging from NPR to the BBC to The Times…
Samira K. Mehta
Samira K. Mehta is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also serves as the Director of Jewish Studies. She is the author of the National Jewish Book Award finalist, Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States and The
An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially constructed category, White, over other racialized categories based on the false idea that race is a fixed and immutable reality.
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of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging, which Oprah Daily called “the epitome of a book meeting a moment.”
