Hebrew, Hebrews, Hubris?: Diagnosing Race and Religion in the Time of COVID-19

This thought experiment in comparison ponders a Black man’s conviction that his Hebrew identity would make him immune to COVID-19. Surfacing the history of the claims and the scholar’s own suspicions, the paper examines the layered politics of identification. Contra an essentialist understanding of...

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Autor principal:	Richard Newton
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	religion race Hebrew comparison ethnicity COVID-19 Religions. Mythology. Rationalism BL1-2790
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:876e87953b794d848f72cc2739977f672021-11-25T18:53:26ZHebrew, Hebrews, Hubris?: Diagnosing Race and Religion in the Time of COVID-1910.3390/rel121110202077-1444https://doaj.org/article/876e87953b794d848f72cc2739977f672021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/11/1020https://doaj.org/toc/2077-1444This thought experiment in comparison ponders a Black man’s conviction that his Hebrew identity would make him immune to COVID-19. Surfacing the history of the claims and the scholar’s own suspicions, the paper examines the layered politics of identification. Contra an essentialist understanding of the terms, “Hebrew” and “Hebrews” are shown to be classificatory events, ones imbricated in the dynamics of racecraft. Furthermore, a contextualization of the “race religion” model of 19th century scholarship, 20th century US religio-racial movements, and the complicated legacy of Tuskegee in 21st century Black vaccine hesitancy help to outline the need for inquisitiveness rather than hubris in matters of comparison. In so doing, this working paper advances a model of the public scholar as a questioner of categories and a diagnostician of classification.Richard NewtonMDPI AGarticlereligionraceHebrewcomparisonethnicityCOVID-19Religions. Mythology. RationalismBL1-2790ENReligions, Vol 12, Iss 1020, p 1020 (2021)
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description	This thought experiment in comparison ponders a Black man’s conviction that his Hebrew identity would make him immune to COVID-19. Surfacing the history of the claims and the scholar’s own suspicions, the paper examines the layered politics of identification. Contra an essentialist understanding of the terms, “Hebrew” and “Hebrews” are shown to be classificatory events, ones imbricated in the dynamics of racecraft. Furthermore, a contextualization of the “race religion” model of 19th century scholarship, 20th century US religio-racial movements, and the complicated legacy of Tuskegee in 21st century Black vaccine hesitancy help to outline the need for inquisitiveness rather than hubris in matters of comparison. In so doing, this working paper advances a model of the public scholar as a questioner of categories and a diagnostician of classification.
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Hebrew, Hebrews, Hubris?: Diagnosing Race and Religion in the Time of COVID-19

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