Blacks in the Jewish Mind a Crisis of Liberalism
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 Jewis...
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New York
NYU Press
1998, 1998
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-264) and index