Troubling the Waters (eBook)

Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century

Cheryl Lynn Greenberg (Autor)

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2010
368 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2707-7 (ISBN)

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Was there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America? And if there was, what happened to it? In Troubling the Waters, Cheryl Greenberg answers these questions more definitively than they have ever been answered before, drawing the richest portrait yet of what was less an alliance than a tumultuous political engagement--but one that energized the civil rights revolution, shaped the agenda of liberalism, and affected the course of American politics as a whole. Drawing on extensive new research in the archives of organizations such as the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League, Greenberg shows that a special black-Jewish political relationship did indeed exist, especially from the 1940s to the mid-1960s--its so-called "e;golden era"e;--and that this engagement galvanized and broadened the civil rights movement. But even during this heyday, she demonstrates, the black-Jewish relationship was anything but inevitable or untroubled. Rather, cooperation and conflict coexisted throughout, with tensions caused by economic clashes, ideological disagreements, Jewish racism, and black anti-Semitism, as well as differences in class and the intensity of discrimination faced by each group. These tensions make the rise of the relationship all the more surprising--and its decline easier to understand. Tracing the growth, peak, and deterioration of black-Jewish engagement over the course of the twentieth century, Greenberg shows that the history of this relationship is very much the history of American liberalism--neither as golden in its best years nor as absolute in its collapse as commonly thought.

Autor

Cheryl Lynn Greenberg is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of "Or Does it Explode?" and To Ask for an Equal Chance, and the editor of A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Zusatzinfo: 1 halftone.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Acculturation • activism • adam clayton powell jr. • affair • Affirmative Action • African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68) • African American–Jewish relations • African Americans • African blood brotherhood • American Jewish Congress • american jews • americans • Anti-Capitalism • Anti-Communism • anti-defamation league • anti-racism • Antisemitism • Antisemitism in the United States • anti-Zionism • A. Philip Randolph • Baton Rouge bus boycott • beneficiary • bigotry • Black Nationalism • black people • B'nai B'rith • Booker T. Washington • boycott • brigitta • Business Ethics • Capitalism • Citizenship • civil liberties • Civil Rights Congress • colored • Commentary (magazine) • communism • Competition • conservative judaism • Criticism • David Duke • desegregation • Discrimination • Eminent domain • Employment • employment discrimination • Equal Opportunity • Exclusion • Farce • Fiscal conservatism • foreign policy • freedom schools • Frustration • gentile • George washington university • Grandfather Clause • greatness • grocery store • Guinn v. United States • Harlem Renaissance • Hate group • hatred • Headline • Hebrews • hostility • Ideology • Immigration • income • Individual and group rights • inoculation • Institution • intimidation • Irreconcilable differences • Jacob Schiff • Jewish Federation • Jewish Labor Committee • Jewish left • Jews • Judaism • Landlord • lawyer • left-wing politics • Legislation • Liberalism • Literature • lunch counter • lynching • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom • Marxism • Mary McLeod Bethune • middle class • Military • minority group • Moore v. Dempsey • Motivation • Multiculturalism • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • National Council of Negro Women • Nationalism • national Lawyers Guild • National Negro Congress • Nazi Party • Nazism • New Negro • newspaper • of education • Oppression • Pamphlet • paternalism • Pat Robertson • Persecution • Pittsburgh Courier • Pogrom • police dog • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Positive Development • Prejudice • Presumption of innocence • progressivism • Protest • Public Opinion • Public sphere • Race (human categorization) • Racial Equality • Racial segregation • Racism • racism in the united states • Radicalism (historical) • Ralph Bunche • Rebuttal (policy debate) • Reform Judaism • Religious discrimination • Requirement • Research assistant • resentment • reverse discrimination • rhetoric • Richard Nixon • Roy Wilkins • Secularization • Self-perception theory • separatism • Slavery • Social access • social actions • Social behavior • social issue • Social Law • social liberalism • social position • Society • Society of the United States • Southern Regional Council • Stanley Levison • Stereotypes of Jews • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee • suburb • Subversion • Suggestion • Synagogue Council of America • Tax law • The Other Hand • Trade Union • un-american • Uncertainty • Voting • war • war effort • W. E. B. Du Bois • welfare • Wellesley College • West Indian • white people • white supremacy • Worship • Yiddish • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2707-8 / 1400827078
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2707-7 / 9781400827077