Davidson Microaggressions Project
Davidson Microaggressions Project
Davidson Microaggressions Project
Intersections of Jewish Identity, Hybridity, & Microaggressions: A Conversation with Dr. Ilana McQuinn & Dhalia Krutkovich
57 minutes Posted Apr 30, 2021 at 8:34 pm.
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In this episode, DMP collaborator Juan Diaz Mercado interviews Jewish Studies professor-scholar Dr. Ilana McQuinn and Davidson senior Dhalia Kurtkovich about the unique intersections of marginalization and being Jewish in the U.S. American south, and Jewish hybrid identity in both Europe and the U.S. Our guests urge us to think beyond persecution tropes towards a critical understanding of Jewish hybrid identity, especially in relation to multiculturalism and the far political right; discourse often lacks a critical apparatus to talk about Jews, race and power due to the dissonance many hold about Jews as white people and therefore not occupying a positionality of legitimate oppression. The Davidson campus community experienced a jarring reality when two of our own students were doxed online and outed as Neo-Nazis. Our guests discuss the Jewish representation as Holocaust-centered only, which leaves large gaps in how Jewish Studies relates to many subfields and broad topic areas such as antiracist discourses, human rights, post-Holocaust conversations, the law, and the struggles for equal rights. Dr. McQuinn and Dahlia highlight Jewish-specific microaggressions that permeate our societal structures including assumptions based on whiteness, wealth, religious holidays, multiculturalism, and in/visibility.