Tigermedia - Intersecting Identities: Navigating Race and Religion
Intersecting Identities: Navigating Race and Religion
Date: November 3rd, 2021
Duration:
1h:1m:46s
This conversation focuses on how constructions of identity impact the ways both Jewish and Muslim people are racialized in our society, as well as how beliefs about "the other" contribute to rising antisemitism and Islamophobia. Featuring Dr. Marc Dollinger, Professor and Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University and author of "Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s" (Brandeis University Press, 2018) and Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College and author of "Shoah through Muslim Eyes" (Academic Studies Press, 2017). The event was co-sponsored by the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center and the Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights at Rutgers University.
This conversation focuses on how constructions of identity impact the ways both Jewish and Muslim people are racialized in our society, as well as how beliefs about "the other" contribute to rising antisemitism and Islamophobia. Featuring Dr. Marc Dollinger, Professor and Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University and author of "Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s" (Brandeis University Press, 2018) and Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College and author of "Shoah through Muslim Eyes" (Academic Studies Press, 2017). The event was co-sponsored by the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center and the Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights at Rutgers University.