The Caged Bird Tweets of Freedom: Black Jewish Life and Twitter, with Jesi Taylor Cruz

The Caged Bird Tweets of Freedom: Black Jewish Life and Twitter, with Jesi Taylor Cruz

Clarissa talks to journalist and graduate student of philosophy Jesi Taylor Cruz about her paper “The Caged Bird Tweets of Freedom: On the Digital Hypervisibility of Black Jewish life.” They discuss race and racism in the Jewish community, and the ways in which digital spaces, and Black, Jewish Twitter (Jwitter), in particular, has offered Black Jews a way to build community on a global scale.

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