The identity question
Subtitle: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America
By: Robert Philipson.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Blacks -- Europe -- Social conditions.; Jews -- Europe -- Social conditions.; Blacks -- United States -- Social conditions.; Jews -- United States -- Social conditions.; Europe -- Ethnic relations.; United States -- Ethnic relations.
Description: "The Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America explores the effects of diaspora upon black and Jewish consciousness, demonstrating similar histories of marginality and oppression. Casting off the fixed social categories of an earlier age, Enlightenment thinkers argued that all men in their capacity as citizens of a secular state had the right to full civic participation and equal protection under the law. In theory, such an ideology did not recognize classes or races."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. (235-246) and index.