Ashkenormativity
English
Etymology
Blend of Ashkenazi + normativity.
Noun
Ashkenormativity (uncountable)
- The assumption that Jews are Ashkenazi Jews by default, and that Ashkenazi culture is the culture of Judaism at large.
- 2021, Caitlyn Rose Campana, Sephardi Identity & Legitimacy in the Age of Direct-to-Consumer DNA Tests (thesis), Miami: Florida International University, OCLC 1317293294, page 46:
- 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 […]
- 2022, Hen Mazzig, The Wrong Kind of Jew: A Mizrahi Manifesto, New York: Wicked Son, →ISBN:
- While I do believe that Ashkenormativity has been a detriment to the Mizrahi people and Jews of color, it shouldn't be so much to ask for a world in which all voices are heard and respected.
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Related terms
- Ashkenormative