Blacks in the Jewish mind : : a crisis of liberalism / / Seth Forman.

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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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [1998]
©1998
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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
  • 5. The Jew as Middleman
  • Conclusion. Blacks and Jews in American Popular Culture
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author