Ashkenormativity
Ashkenormativity noun: the assumption that Jews are Ashkenazi Jews by default, and that Ashkenazi culture is the culture of Judaism at large.
Noun
Ashkenormativity (uncountable)
- The assumption that Jews are Ashkenazi Jews by default, and that Ashkenazi culture is the culture of Judaism at large.
- Moreover, Sephardi communities have not been the subjects of enough studies, genetics-based or otherwise. Their titular exclusion from some DTC DNA testing companies' reference population lists helps perpetuate an already socially existent Ashkenormativity […]2021, Caitlyn Rose Campana, Sephardi Identity & Legitimacy in the Age of Direct-to-Consumer DNA Tests (thesis), Miami: Florida International University, →OCLC, page 46
- In a move aimed at avoiding the mistakes made by many of the Jewish institutions in which students have grown up, the guidebook encourages students creating new Jewish organizations to ensure that “JOCSM (Jews of Color, Sephardi, Mizrahi) feel included and comfortable,” to maintain a “[s]upportive...2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents
Origin of Ashkenormativity
Blend of Ashkenazi + normativity.
Questions about Ashkenormativity
- What does Ashkenormativity mean?
- Ashkenormativity means the assumption that Jews are Ashkenazi Jews by default, and that Ashkenazi culture is the culture of Judaism at large.
- What part of speech is Ashkenormativity?
- Ashkenormativity is a noun.
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