Title: Blacks in the Jewish mind
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: African Americans, Relations with Jews, Liberalism, History, African americans, relations with jews, United states, race relations
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: E185.61 .F7216 1998