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Jewishness after mount sinai: Jews, blacks and the (multi)racial category

Katya Gibel Azoulay Grinnell College, POB 805, Grinnell, IA, 50112
Pages 211-246 | Published online: 04 May 2010

Notes

  • Lazzare , Jane . 1996 . Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons
  • McBride , James . 1996 . The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
  • Jones , H. , ed. 1990 . How I Became Hettie Jones
  • 1998 . The Prince of Egypt Katzenbach

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