Blacks in the Jewish Mind : a Crisis of Liberalism.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : NYU Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (286 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780814728901
- 0814728901
- 305.800973
- E185.61 .F7216 1998
Introduction : race relations and the invisible Jew; 1 The liberal Jew, the southern Jew, and desegregation in the South, 1945-1964; 2 Jews and racial integration in the north, 1945-1966; 3 The New York intellectuals and their "Negro problem," 1945-1966; 4 The unbearable "whiteness" of being Jewish : the Jewish approach toward Black power, 1967-1972; 5 The Jew as middleman : Jewish opposition to Black power, 1967-1972; Conclusion: Blacks and Jews in American popular culture.
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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