"Black Jews in Africa and the Americas" Book Review with Professor Tudor Parfitt

"Black Jews in Africa and the Americas" tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai and many other African & American groups came to think of themselves as descendants of the tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race narratives over a millennium, in which not only were Jews cast as black but black Africans were cast as Jews, Parfitt reveals a complex history of the interaction between religious & racial labels & their political uses.