Ghost people: race, religion, and the affective sources of Jewish identity
In: Oxford scholarship online
What does race feel like? What does race make people feel? 'Ghost People' traces the haunting feelings that constitute race as a structural, social, & psychic experience in modern European history by focusing on the case of Jewish racialization. Taking a theoretical cue from W.E.B. Du Bois' question in the 'Souls of Black Folk', 'How does it feel to be a problem?', Paul E. Nahme queries the affective experience of racial formation & reframes how we should think & talk about the Jewish Question. He explores the ways feeling & emotion have coloured the lives of different people in social, political, & psycho-social dimensions.
