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Playing Africans

Kibbutz Educational Performance, 1950s–1990s

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Abstract

Africa Day was a practice of elementary school educational performances in kibbutzim, which featured mimetic impressions of Africans by children. As a mode of settler subject formation, Africa Day sustained imagined, “borrowed” indigeneity, while effectively obfuscating Palestinian indigenous existence. As a complex site of simultaneous reiteration and renegotiation of race and racism, the event’s reconstruction brings to the foreground the accumulation of whiteness particular to Zionism, which is not only the violence of racial supremacy, but also the violence of selfish disregard.

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TDR , Volume 68 , Issue 3 , September 2024 , pp. 116 - 130
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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