Blacks in the Jewish mind
Subtitle: a crisis of liberalism
By: Seth Forman.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: African Americans -- Relations with Jews; Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: Since the 1960s, a period which saw a flourishing of Black-Jewish alliances, the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the schism, Seth Forman here sets out to determine what Jewish thinking on the subject of Black Americans reveals about Jewish identity in the United States. Why did American Jews get involved in Black causes in the first place? What did they have to gain from it? And what does that tell us about American Jews?

Blacks in the Jewish Mind is the first study on race relations to examine the unusual efforts of one white group to attach itself to the enormity of the Black experiences - sometimes, to its own cultural detriment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : race relations and the invisible Jew; title: The liberal Jew, the southern Jew, and desegregation in the South, 1945-1964; title: Jews and racial integration in the North, 1945-1966; title: The New York intellectuals and their "Negro problem", 1945-1966; title: The unbearable whiteness of being Jewish : the Jewish approach toward Black power, 1967-1972; title: The Jew as middleman : Jewish opposition to Black power, 1967-1972; title: Conclusion : Blacks and Jews in American popular culture.