Israel Through a Colored Lens: African American Perspectives on Israel & Mizrahi Jews- Bryan Roby

Talk starts at 4:24. Bryan Roby (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor) outlines the history of African American thinkers and writers who influenced Israeli society in the 20th century, and explains how their work coincided with the construction of racial categories in Israel/Palestine.

Bryan K. Roby is an Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. His first book, "The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966" (Syracuse University Press, 2015), provides an extensive history of social justice protests by Middle Eastern Jews in Israel. "Israel through a Colored Lens" is his second book project.

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