Blacks and Jews in America : An Invitation to Dialogue / Terrence L Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Terrence L., author.

Berlinerblau, Jacques, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Relations with Jews.

African Americans.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In this uniquely structured conversational work, which is based on a highly successful undergraduate class, two professors at Georgetown University-- one a scholar of African-American politics and religion, and one a scholar of contemporary American Jewish culture-- endeavor to explain what seems to be a mystery: why aren't Blacks and Jews presently united in their efforts to combat White supremacy? The jarring chants in Charlottesville of "Jews/Blacks will not replace us!," as well as the eerily parallel massacres in houses of worship in Pittsburgh and Charleston, exposed the central targets of the radical Right's wrath. As so-called "Alt-Right" rhetoric increasingly normalizes itself in public life, the time would seem to be right for these one-time allies to rekindle the fires of the Civil Rights movement. The burden of this book is to explore why Blacks and Jews in this moment do not see each other as sharing a common enemy, let alone a political alliance. The book explores the relationship between Blacks and Jews in the US from a number of angles - the disintegration of the Civil Rights coalition of Blacks and Jews, Jews' changing perceptions of their whiteness, the perspective of Black and Jewish millennials, the debate over Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, and the Israel/Palestine debate. Ultimately, this book hopes to change the narrative of Blacks and Jews in America which has been dominated by the Civil Rights Alliance between the two groups and its subsequent fracturing. The book shows that the relationship between Blacks and Jews has much deeper roots than the mid-twentieth century, and the authors intend that the book model the kind of honest and searching conversation which is necessary for Blacks and Jews to forge a new understanding. To further this aim, the book consists of a number of conversations between the authors, as well as interviews with Professor Susanna Heschel of Dartmouth and Professor Yvonne Chireau of Swarthmore College"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The House is On Fire

Finding Our Affinities : An Overview of "Blacks and Jews" Dialogue / by Jacques Berlinerblau

Liberalism : A Tragic Encounter Between Blacks and (White) Jews / by Terrence Johnson

Teaching "Blacks and Jews" in 2020

Interview with Professor Heschel

Interview with Professor Chireau

Talking to American Jews About Whiteness

The Loop and Minister Farrakhan

Israel / Palestine

Afro Jews

Outro

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781647124465

1647124468