Description
Book SynopsisAnalysing the visual syntax and display rhetoric applied in newspaper photos, national historical albums, and museum exhibitions, Noa Hazan shows that although racial thought was and still is verbally suppressed in Israel, it is vividly present in its nonverbal official and public visual sphere.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations by Chapters
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- a. Ingathering the Exiles and the Melting Pot Ideals
- b. Cultural Racism and Visual Racialization
- c. Visual Racialization of the Ingathering of the Exiles and the Melting Pot Ethos
- c.1 Skin Tone
- c.2 Hair Style and Eye Gaze
- c.3 Cultural characteristics
- c.4 Visual and Textual Massage
- d. The Chapters Chapter 1: Biologicization of the Jewish Body
- a. Racial Argument for and Against Emancipation
- b. Composite Portraits of Jews
- b.1 Objectivity
- b.2 Standardization
- b.3 Generalization
- c. The Gaze at and of the Jew Chapter 2: Tropes in Transition: From a Culture of Racism to Cultural Racialization
- a. Racial character of Jews in pre-Zionist Europe
- a.1 The contradiction between religious and political practices
- a.2 Breeding and fertility
- a.3 Intellectual abilities
- a.4. Professional tendencies
- b. Shifting terms
- b.1 The influence of heredity and environment
- b.2 Intellectual abilities and mental fortitude
- b.3 Professional tendencies and physical abilities
- b.4 Spiritual life
- b.5 Hygiene and contagious diseases
- c. Post-Race Discourse
- c.1 Mizrahim and Racism Without Race
- c.2 Reclaiming Race as a Legitimate Category in Cultural Mizrahi Studies
- c.3 The Biology of Jews after the Nazi use of Race Theory
- d. The Visual Syntax of a Nation in the Making
- d.1 Between the Archetypical and the Unique
- d.2 Visual Rhetoric of Ambivalence
- d.3 The Catalogue Model in light of Eugenics and Social Darwinism
- d.4 From the Image to the Ground: Ruppin and The Yemeni of Kinneret Chapter 3: A Melting Pot or a Dividing Mechanism: Visual Syntax of National Duality
- a. Great is the Day of the Ingathering of the Exiles: Ingathering While Othering oriental Jewry
- b. Twelve Tribes and the Distressing Presence of the Arab in the Jew
- c. The Face of Israel at 25: An Inclusive Catalogue
- d. What It Means to Be Jewish
- e. The 80s and 90s Versions of the Catalogue Model
- f. From Unification to Variety and Diversity
- Conclusions: From Visualizing the Jewish Race to Representing the Israeli Nation
- Chapter 4: Off-Grain Fabric
- a. The Establishment of Maskit Fashion House
- b. Home-Based Work
- c. Crafting Tradition
- d. The Display
- e. The Objects
- f. The context
- g. The Audience
- h. the Acceptance Chapter 5: The Bride and the Whore
- a. The Yemen Bride
- a.1 Recreation
- a.2 Salvation
- a.3 Displaying
- b. Fame Fatale Oriental
- b.1 Black Women’s Sexuality on Display
- b.2 Two Mizrahi Female Stereotypes and their origins
- b.3 The Ethnographic Discourse in Israel
- c. Conclusions
- Chapter 6: Institutional Power
- a. The Elasticity of the Color Line
- b. The 1967 war and the 1971 Protest
- c. Photographs of Soldiers in the 1967 war
- c.1 Photographs of Soldiers in the Battlefield
- c.2 Soldiers Taking a Break Between Battles
- c.3 Soldiers in Victory Photos
- d. Conclusions Chapter 7: From War to protest-Photographs of Black Panther Demonstrations
- a. The Black Panthers protest in the Israeli Media
- a.1 Framing
- a.2 Blocking
- a.3 Trapping
- b. Unpublished Photographs
- c. Blurring Ethnic Origin
- d. Invisibility of the protest as a racial signifier
- e. Summary and Conclusions Conclusion
- List of references by Chapters
