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IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 357-374Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2021.1903219
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Racism; Ethiopian Jews; sociological generations; positioning; immigration; narratives; discourse
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The study found that second-generation Ethiopian immigrants developed different identity and positioning strategies compared to the 1.5 generation, but both failed to reduce racism in Israel. It was only through massive demonstrations in 2015 that intergenerational dialogue was created, leading to a new positioning strategy that proved effective in undermining racist hegemonic discourse.
How do immigrant's children cope with racist hegemonic discourse? To what extent, is their response effective? The article addresses this issue through an exploration of the identity and positioning strategies of children of 100,000 'Black Jews' who immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia at the end of the last century. Drawing on the sociology of generations, we show that members of the second generation of Ethiopian immigrants developed a different identity and a contradictory positioning strategy to that of the 1.5 generation, while both failed to reduce racism in Israel. Contrary to Karl Mannheim's linear theory, we argue that intergenerational encounters produce a new identity and a new positioning strategy that may be effective in creating social change. It was only through massive demonstrations in the year 2015 that intergenerational dialogue was created, leading to a new positioning strategy that proved to be effective in undermining racist hegemonic discourse.
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