ISBN:
9780814728901
,
0814728901
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
Paralleltitel:
Blacks in the Jewish mind
DDC:
305.800973
Schlagwort(e):
Liberalism
;
African Americans
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Hochschulschrift
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Hochschulschrift
;
History
;
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Introduction : race relations and the invisible Jew -- The liberal Jew, the southern Jew, and desegregation in the South, 1945-1964 -- Jews and racial integration in the North, 1945-1966 -- The New York intellectuals and their "Negro problem", 1945-1966 -- The unbearable whiteness of being Jewish : the Jewish approach toward Black power, 1967-1972 -- The Jew as middleman : Jewish opposition to Black power, 1967-1972 -- Conclusion : Blacks and Jews in American popular culture
Kurzfassung:
Since the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, Seth Forman here sets out to determine what Jewish thinking on the subject of Black Americans reveals about Jewish identity in the U.S. Why did American Jews get involved in Black causes in the first place? What did they have to gain from it? And what does that tell us about American Jews?. In an extremely provocative analysis, Forman argues that the commitment of American Jews to liberalism, and their histori
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