Struggles in the promised land : toward a history of Black-Jewish relations in the United States / edited by Jack Salzman & Cornel West.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salzman, Jack, editor.

West, Cornel, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Relations with Jews.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent flashpoints in Black-Jewish relations suggest how wide the gap has become in the fragile coalition formed during the Civil Rights movement. This collection of essays seeks not to offer quick fixes to the crisis but to provide a clarifying historical framework from which solutions may emerge.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 The Curse of Ham: A Case of Rabbinic Racism?; 2 The Medieval Background; 3 Jews in the Slave Trade; 4 ""The Law of the Land is the Law"": Antebellum Jews, Slavery, and the Old South; 5 Between Words and Deeds: Jews and Blacks in America, 1880-1935; 6 Blacks and Jews: The Struggle in the Cities; 7 Long-Distance Runners of the Civil Rights Movement: The Contribution of Jews to the NAACP and the National Urban League in the Early Twentieth Century; 8 Negotiating Coalition: Black and Jewish Civil Rights Agencies in the Twentieth Century

9 Black-Jewish Universalism in the Era of Identity Politics 10 Allies of a Different Sort: Jews and Blacks in the American Left; 11 The Need to Remember: Three Phases in Black and Jewish Educational Relations; 12 African Americans and Jews in Hollywood: Antagonistic Allies; 13 Separate Paths: Blacks and Jews in the Twentieth-Century South; 14 Affirmative Action: Jewish Ideals, Jewish Interests; 15 Affirmative Action: African-American and Jewish Perspectives; 16 ""Nation Time!"": Black Nationalism, The Third World, and Jews; 17 African Americans and Israel

18 On Imagining Foes, Imagining Friendship 19 Blacks, Jews, and Gender: The History, Politics, and Cultural Anthropology of a Women's Dialogue Group; 20 Blacks and Jews: A Personal Reflection; 21 Walking the Tightrope: Some Personal Reflections on Blacks and Jews; Notes on Contributors; Selected Readings; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-422) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771653-9

1-280-44294-8

1-4237-3477-7

0-19-802492-4

1-60256-625-9

OCLC:

475956565