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Introduction: Race and the Aesthetic in French and Francophone Cultures (2019)
Journal Article
Bishop, C., & Roth, Z. (2019). Introduction: Race and the Aesthetic in French and Francophone Cultures. Esprit Créateur, 59(2), https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2019.0012

“You can change your noses, but you can’t change your Moses”: Olfactory Aesthetics and the Jewish “Race” (2019)
Journal Article
Roth, Z. (2019). “You can change your noses, but you can’t change your Moses”: Olfactory Aesthetics and the Jewish “Race”. Esprit Créateur, 59(2), 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2019.0017

This article shifts the analysis of the ‘Jewish’ nose away from its visual significance to its olfactory capacity. It develops the notion of an olfactory aesthetics as a way of becoming attuned to the role smell plays in the interpretation of racial... Read More about “You can change your noses, but you can’t change your Moses”: Olfactory Aesthetics and the Jewish “Race”.