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    Beyond Ontological Jewishness: A Philosophical Reflection on the Study of African American Jews and the Social Problems of the Jewish and Human Sciences

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    Date
    2011
    Author
    Isaac, Walter
    Advisor
    Alpert, Rebecca T. (Rebecca Trachtenberg), 1950-
    Committee member
    Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962-
    Levitt, Laura, 1960-
    Jackson, John L., Jr., 1971-
    Department
    Religion
    Subject
    Philosophy
    Judaic Studies
    African American Studies
    Africana Judaism
    Black Existential Philosophy
    Black Jews
    Philosophical Anthropology
    Philosophy of Race
    Postcolonial Phenomenology
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/1483
    Abstract
    The present dissertation is a case study in applied phenomenology, specifically the postcolonial phenomenology of racism theorized by Lewis Gordon and applied to scholarly studies conducted on African American Jews and their kinfolk. My thesis is the following: Presumptively ontological human natures cannot function axiomatically for humanistic research on African American Jews. A humanistic science of Africana Jews must foreground the lived social worlds that permit such Jews to appear as ordinary expressions of humanity. The basic premise here is that subaltern (or denied) humanity exists in a neocolonial social world by virtue of an ordinariness that supervenes on humanity. For example, the more historians consider Africana Jews as ordinary, the more Africana Jews' humanity will appear. And the more human Africana Jews appear, the more inhuman their extraordinary appearance appears. This symbiosis constitutes a basic existential condition. When research on Africana Jews ignores this condition, it succumbs to ontological Jewishnness and other concepts rooted in what postcolonial theorist Frantz Fanon calls the "colonial natural attitude.
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