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Black Hebrews. --- Black Israelites --- Black Jews (African American religious sects) --- Black Judaism --- Sects

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The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are often dismissed as a fringe cult for their beliefs that African Americans are descendants of the ancient Israelites and that veganism leads to immortality. But John L. Jackson questions what "fringe" means in a world where cultural practices of every stripe circulate freely on the Internet. In this poignant and sophisticated examination of the limits of ethnography, the reader is invited into the visionary, sometimes vexing world of the AHIJ. Jackson challenges what Clifford Geertz called the "thick description" of anthropological research through a multidisciplinary investigation of how the AHIJ use media and technology to define their public image in the twenty-first century. Moving beyond the "modest witness" of nineteenth-century scientific discourse or the "thick descriptions" of twentieth-century anthropology, Jackson insists that Geertzian thickness is impossible, especially in a world where the anthropologist's subjects craft their own self-ethnographies and critically consume the ethnographer's offerings. Taking as its topic a group situated along the fault lines of several diasporas--African, American, Jewish--Thin Description provides an account of how race, religion, and ethnographic representation must be understood anew in the twenty-first century, lest we reenact old mistakes in the study of black humanity.

Black Hebrews --- African Americans --- African American-Jewish relations --- Jewish-African American relations --- Jews --- Negro-Jewish relations --- Black Israelites --- Black Jews (African American religious sects) --- Black Judaism --- Sects --- Social conditions. --- Relations with Jews. --- Relations with African Americans --- Ammi, Ben, --- African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem. --- Black Hebrew Israelite Nation --- Dimonah (Israel) --- Dimona, Israel --- Domona (Israel) --- Dimona (Israel) --- Ethnic relations. --- Social conditions --- Relations with Jews