TY - JOUR
T1 - The paradox of diversity in the Israeli academia
T2 - reproducing white Jewishness and national supremacy
AU - Abu-Rabia-Queder, Sarab
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - This paper claims that policies designed to promote diversity and provide Ethiopian Jews with opportunities in Israeli institutions of higher learning create a paradox where, rather than diversifying student bodies and faculties in universities, they bolster the reproduction of national and religious supremacy of white Jews in the Israeli academia. Interviews with 50 Ethiopian students reveal that the racialized cultural indexes on which Israeli society structures its racialized attitudes towards Ethiopian immigrants have not been purged from university campuses. Instead, I argue, they continue to suffuse and shape those very programs designed to combat them by reinventing Jewish privilege and national exclusivity in Israeli universities.
AB - This paper claims that policies designed to promote diversity and provide Ethiopian Jews with opportunities in Israeli institutions of higher learning create a paradox where, rather than diversifying student bodies and faculties in universities, they bolster the reproduction of national and religious supremacy of white Jews in the Israeli academia. Interviews with 50 Ethiopian students reveal that the racialized cultural indexes on which Israeli society structures its racialized attitudes towards Ethiopian immigrants have not been purged from university campuses. Instead, I argue, they continue to suffuse and shape those very programs designed to combat them by reinventing Jewish privilege and national exclusivity in Israeli universities.
KW - Israel
KW - Racism
KW - black women
KW - diversity
KW - higher education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075969738&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13613324.2019.1694502
DO - 10.1080/13613324.2019.1694502
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075969738
SN - 1361-3324
VL - 25
SP - 231
EP - 248
JO - Race Ethnicity and Education
JF - Race Ethnicity and Education
IS - 2
ER -