Interrupting Whiteness

ADARR

Tel-Aviv

At the Porter Institute

for Poetics and Semiotics

INVITATION

Tuesday March 13, 6 PM, Webb 102 (in English)

Dr. Janice Fernheimer, University of Kentucky:

Interrupting Whiteness :

Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Expansion of Jewish Identity

Janice W. Fernheimer, Assistant Professor, English Department & Program in Jewish Studies

President, Klal Rhetorica

Professor Fernheimer's book project, Rhetoric, Race, Religion: Hatzaad Harishon and Black Jewish Identity from Civil Rights to Black Power (RRR), is under contract with the University of Alabama Press. Analyzing primary archival documents (letters, memos, proposals) housed at the Schomburg Center in New York, RRR focuses on Black Jews and their interactions with other Jews to theorize how rhetors argue about questions of identity and authenticity.