Appropriating Jewish History by the African Diaspora, Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries
Appropriating Jewish History by the African Diaspora, Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries
This chapter focuses on the theories of Afrocentrism that provided the theoretical basis for Africans to appropriate the Jewish history. By trying to restore the primacy of African influence in the world, the Afrocentrist ideology established a link of connivance with the most remote ancestors and asserted that Africans were the true original Jewish race. Following the history of these political texts, the precursors of African Diaspora identification with the Jewish Diaspora and the subsequent roots of African Judaizing movements are considered: special attention is paid to African American Jewish movements. The symbolic role of Judaism in the religious imagination of the Hebrew-Israelites (in Israel) and the Rastafarian movement (in Jamaica) is also examined.
Keywords: Afrocentrism, Africans, Jews, Judaism, Rastafarian, Hebrew, Israelites, Israel
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