Authenticity's genome : heredity, conversion, and the adoptability of ethnoracial membership
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation explores Jewish converts' search for authenticity in an adopted identity. In examining a highly atypical case in which membership in an ethnoracial is attained through means other than birth, I assess how individuals, groups, and society make sense of a situation of ethnoracial change that is at odds with the typical construction of American ethnoraciality. For converts, there is a looming sense that missing heredity calls the authenticity of one's membership into question, and each of a set of responses -- proving its presence in one's genes, "passing" as having attained membership by birth, or ensuring the heredity of one's progeny -- responds to desiring enhanced authenticity by making heredity palpable. While they focus on different temporal spaces and different subpopulations of converts, heredity is the clear and overarching feature of the authenticity-enhancing strategies identified in all three papers. Balancing being a group that calls heredity's seemingly-uniform role in ethnoracial membership into question against these strategies for achieving authenticity, converts position asking: is heredity surpassable in the politics of ethnoracial groupness?.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Horowitz, Adam L |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
| Primary advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Primary advisor | Snipp, C. Matthew |
| Thesis advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Snipp, C. Matthew |
| Thesis advisor | Kelman, Ari Y, 1971- |
| Thesis advisor | Ridgeway, Cecilia L |
| Thesis advisor | Rosenfeld, Michael J, 1966- |
| Advisor | Kelman, Ari Y, 1971- |
| Advisor | Ridgeway, Cecilia L |
| Advisor | Rosenfeld, Michael J, 1966- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Adam L. Horowitz. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2016 by Adam Louis Horowitz
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