Papers by Katya Gibel Mevorach
Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy, 2021
Utah State University Press eBooks, Aug 15, 2017
De Gruyter eBooks, Feb 20, 2023
Bioethics and Racism: Practices, Conflicts, Negotiations and Struggle(s)
Choice Reviews Online, 2010
... Many thanks to my colleagues at Fordham: Allan Gilbert and Clara Rodriguez helped along ... G... more ... Many thanks to my colleagues at Fordham: Allan Gilbert and Clara Rodriguez helped along ... Garrett, Miki Maki-hara, Peter Schneider, Lanita Huey-Jacobs, Judy Gerson, Courtney Be ... conference, Beyond Eastern Europe, organized by Jeffrey Shandler and Yael Zerubavel; and ...
Cultural Studies, 1997
This article examines the implications of the language of 'cultural diversity' and 'difference' f... more This article examines the implications of the language of 'cultural diversity' and 'difference' for syllabi, curricula and educators in academic institutions. The author suggests an intellectual orientation which moves away from the social vocabulary of 'inclusion' to that of 'multivocality'. Such an approach requires an interdisciplinary model whose departure point anticipates the need to teach students the skills of interrogating the relationship between power and knowledge and the political implications of this link. It is argued that such a perspective would encourage a more careful consideration of bibliography and presentations which take into account the complex diversity in the backgrounds of students-the target audience. This would simultaneously diffuse the tendency to depoliticize and domesticate race relations under the labels of 'culture' and 'multiculturalism' and require educators to assume that more than a few have family histories which mirror heterogeneity and pluralism. The embodiment of difference, however, may not always be visible. As a pedagogical strategy, thinking explicitly about the assumptions behind who, what and how one teaches will further the epistemological and political objective of educating students to develop informed opinions as well as help to cultivate a heightened sense of personal accountability to their responsibilities in the multiple communities to which they belong. KEYWORDS diversity; culture; multiculturalism; pedagogy; race; identity; politics This article focuses on an inescapable core issue facing the American academy: how to confront the question of 'difference', with its corollary questions, such as the relationship between identity and politics on the one hand, and knowledge and power on the other. It is an invitation to reflect on how the idea of 'difference' relates to, and is conceptualized and repreN sented under, the umbrella of culture. A number of difficult, and perhaps uncomfortable, questions will be mapped out as challenges facing educators whose long-term goal is not merely to prepare students for life in a world still troubled by racism, poverty and intolerance, but to motivate them towards contributing to its betterment.
American Ethnologist, 2004
Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122 Copyright © 2002 by Temple University, except Chapter... more Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122 Copyright © 2002 by Temple University, except Chapter I copyright © 2002 by KimberU Williams Crcnshaw, Chapter 3 copyright © 2002 by Catharine A. MacKinnon, and Chapter 7 copyright © 2002 by Sherene H. Razack. All rights reserved ...
American Anthropologist, 2002
African American Review, 1999
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London ©1997 by Jon Michael Spencer All rights reserved Li... more NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London ©1997 by Jon Michael Spencer All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Spencer, Jon Michael. The new colored people: the mixed-race movement in America / Jon Michael Spencer; with a ...
De Gruyter eBooks, Feb 20, 2023
Bioethics and Racism Practices, Conflicts, Negotiations and Struggles Edited by: Carlo Botrugno , Marcia Mocellin Raymundo and Lucia Re, 2023
This chapter argues for intervening against and discrediting the race concept in science educatio... more This chapter argues for intervening against and discrediting the race concept in science education and research. The histories, contexts and consequences of racism evidence the necessity of vigilance in teaching and uprooting false ideas which otherwise serve as the premise and departure point for prescriptive questions and interpretation. This means candidly confronting dismantling racism and making visible its trace. The question is always, what difference does difference make?
American Anthropologist, 2003
African American Review, 2007
... do not spring, as Paul Berman has suggested, from instinctive hatred for the person who is a... more ... do not spring, as Paul Berman has suggested, from instinctive hatred for the person who is almost the same, not quite the double but rather the false brother.3 Or, instead, is their relationship better represented in the bifurcated identity of Philip Roth's protagonist in The Human ...
Identities, 2001
... needed resided in neither the pigmentation of my daughter's skin or the classification o... more ... needed resided in neither the pigmentation of my daughter's skin or the classification of her ... This overlap of white/Jewish, reinforced by current official race categories classifying immigrants from ... According to Halachah, one is automatic-ally Jewish by descent if one's mother is ...
American Ethnologist, 2007
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Course Description: Guidelines should be read and referred to periodically (*Prof reserves right to revise this syllabus) - This course examines Jews and Jewish diversity as an interruption to discussions of multiculturalism and specifically examines the persistence of antisemitism over time and space. Cumulatively, the readings provide a loose overview of theological antisemitism, racial antisemitism, social antisemitism and political antisemitism. Political antisemitism offers up important corollary questions concerning the relationship(s) between identities, power and knowledge, the consequences of globalization on stereotypes and (mis)representation of people and places and, importantly, the role of academic activism and its political consequences.
Course Objectives The goals of the course are complex and nuanced precisely because the subject itself has invited discussions which slip and slide along a continuum of propaganda and partisanship. Questions about who are the Jews and Jewish identities raise questions about assimilation, difference and belonging. New antisemitism has confused criticism of government policies with questioning the right of a country to exist.