Race and Religion Among the Chosen People of Crown Heights
"Race and Religion among the Chosen Peoples of Crown  Heightsis a richly sustained and critically insightful ethnography of  the Lubavitch community in Crown Heights. Henry Goldschmidt has done an  excellent job of creating an account that reflects the Lubavitchers'  worldview and simultaneously gives voice to their neighbors." --Jonathan Boyarin, Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish  Studies, University of Kansas"Grounded in extended research among both Blacks and Hasidic Jews  in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Goldschmidt challenges the binary, black/white  approach to U.S. race relations, brilliantly demonstrating how religious  discourses inform and complicate the everyday reckoning  of distinctions between Self and Other. Beautifully written, this book is a  major contribution." --Steven Gregory, author ofBlack Corona: Race and the Politics of Place  in an Urban Community"With great intelligence, compassion, and humor, Henry Goldschmidt  moves from the laundromat, to kosher kitchens, to the street to gain  understanding about the difficulties that religion and race present to the  project of American multiculturalism." --Faye Ginsburg, author ofContested Lives: The Abortion Debate  in an American Community