We are excited and pleased to announce the most recent publication that is part of the ISS book series (Scripturalization).
Purchase the book, encourage your libraries to do so, and post this announcement on your networks.
Consider submitting your manuscript or proposal for consideration.
For more details, see ISS Book Series | Bloomsbury Site
Reviews
Aurelien Mokoko Gampiot opens a new intellectual space for thinking about what Jews look like and what being Black signifies in France where the post- World War II Jewish community is divided by a European Ashkenazi-North African Sephardi binary unfamiliar to most American readers.
Visible markers of Jewishness coupled with visual diversity of physical appearance necessarily reworks meanings of Blackness and African otherness where French racism and antisemitism remain intimately linked. Mokoko Gampiot argues that scripturalization of Black identities are compatible for interiorizing both Jewish and Black African identities. Within the intersection of two French ethnic minorities, existential African and Caribbean legacies are complimentary to spiritual experiences finding community with and as Jews.
Gampiot’s engaging ethnography should be prioritized by anyone interested in 21st century Jewish diversity and Blackness outside the prism of American racism.
Katya Gibel Mevorach, Grinnell College; author of Black, Jewish, and Interracial: It’s Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity