Multicultural society and everyday cultural racism: second generation of Ethiopian Jews in Israel's 'crisis of modernization'
The core of this article sets out to examine the extent to which a multicultural society can prevent cultural racism, which, like multi-culturalism, is by definition based on a culture of diversity and separation. The 'first modernity' was organized along national lines, with a centralist...
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| Type de support: | Imprimé Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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2008
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Ethnic and racial studies
Année: 2008, Volume: 31, Numéro: 5, Pages: 935-961 |
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Identité culturelle
B Israël B Juifs B Relation B Äthiopien B Question des nationalités B Société multiculturelle B Assimilation Sociologie B Israël Société multiculturelle Migration internationale Identité culturelle Ethnische Probleme / Nationalitätenprobleme Assimilation Juifs Racisme Relation Problème B Migration internationale B Problème B Racisme |
| Résumé: | The core of this article sets out to examine the extent to which a multicultural society can prevent cultural racism, which, like multi-culturalism, is by definition based on a culture of diversity and separation. The 'first modernity' was organized along national lines, with a centralist state that opted to create an essentialist and uncontested national identity. Immigrants, especially those who came from 'third world' countries, were expected to undergo a process of assimilation, and ti integrate into the dominant culture by relinquishing their particular past and tradition. Multiculturalism, which emerged historically as a criticism of that perspective, aims at creating a kaleidoscope of associations and cultural communities, which inevitably presents a challenge to the one 'truth' of the nation-state with the argument that this 'truth' favours some groups over others. Within the multicultural model, identity politics of various groups is perceived as a means to achieve recognition, acceptance, respect and even public affirmation of differences. However, do multicultural society and identity-related differences provide a solution to cultural racism as well? Investigating the second generation of the Ethiopian Jews, who migrated to Israel during its transformation from ethno-national republicanism to a neo-liberal, multicultural society, can help answer this question. By presenting their patterns of association, character of protest activities and the newly formed hybrid identity that Ethiopian youth have developed as a means to liberate themselves from a discriminating reality, and by examining the Others' reaction to that challenge, this article uncovers certain mechanisms and methods of action through which a multicultural society, having a thin and mild version of multiculturalism, does not diminish cultural racism, particularly its everyday non-institutional version, but in fact augments it. (Ethnic and Racial Studies) |
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| Description matérielle: | Lit. S. 957-961 |
| ISSN: | 0141-9870 |
| Contient: | In: Ethnic and racial studies
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