Anthropology 281 - Biology and the Imagining of the Jews:Science and the Jews as a Race

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

Human Rights, Jewish Studies, SRE, STS This course examines the history of the persistent biological/racial classification of the Jews since about the 15th century, using it to consider the sciences of race as they have flourished and floundered, including the recent reemergence of scientific justification for the race concept and its application to the Jews. It explores social constructions of race as applied to the Jews, and the critiques of these constructions, as represented in the writings of both Jews and non-Jews. It also reviews some non-Euro-American efforts to account for Jewish difference in Brazil, India, Africa, and elsewhere.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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