Brooks-Key, Andre

Andre E. Brooks-Key is an associate professor and program coordinator of African and African American studies at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina, where he teaches courses in African American social and political thought, Africana religion, and the Black male experience. He earned his Ph.D. in African American studies from Temple University. His research focuses on Black Jews and Hebrew Israelites and the phenomenon popularly regarded as Black Judaism. As a former participant observer, he has written extensively on the theological and cultural meanings of the practices of Hebrew Israelites. He is currently working on a full-length manuscript on the perception of Hebrew Israelite religious identity in American Jewish communities. Brooks-Key is also a contributing writer on the intersection of race and religion for Religion Dispatches.
Abstract: Black Jews and the Problem of Ortho-ethnicity