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African Americans and Jews in the twentieth century : studies in convergence and conflict / edited by V.P. Franklin [and others].

Contributor(s): Franklin, V. P. (Vincent P.), 1947-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: vii, 366 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0826211976 (alk. paper)Subject(s): African Americans -- Relations with Jews | Jews -- United States -- History -- 20th century | African Americans -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Race relations | United States -- Ethnic relationsDDC classification: 305.8/00973 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Remembering Nancy Louise Grant (1949-1995) / Genna Rae McNeil -- Drawn together by self-interest: Jewish representation of race and race relations in the early twentieth century / Hasia R. Diner -- Black Zionism: Marcus Garvey and the Jewish question / Robert A. Hill -- Franz Boas's paradox and the African American intelligentsia / Vernon J. Williams Jr. -- Black sacrifice, Jewish redemption: from Al Jolson's Jazz Singer to John Garfield's Body and Soul / Michael Rogin -- The civil rights movement and the reemergence of the left / Murray Friedman -- The southern Jewish community and the struggle for civil rights / Cheryl Greenberg -- Against the grain: Black conservatives and Jewish neoconservatives / Nancy Haggard-Gilson -- African Americans, Jews and the city: perspectives from the industrial era, 1900-1950 / Joe W. Trotter Jr. -- Keeping them "In the same boat together"?: Sufi Abdul Hamid, African Americans, Jews, and the Harlem jobs boycotts / Winston C. McDowell -- African Americans and Jews in organized labor: a case study of Detroit, 1920-1950 / Marshall F. Stevenson Jr. -- Black-Jewish conflict in the labor context: race, jobs, and institutional power / Herbert Hill -- The portrayal of Jews in The Autobiography of Malcolm X / V.P. Franklin -- The increasing significance of class: Black-Jewish conflict in the postindustrial global era / Walda Katz-Fishman and Jerome Scott.

Contains revised version of papers presented at the conference "Blacks and Jews : an American Historical Perspective" held at Washington University in St. Louis in Dec. 1993.

Remembering Nancy Louise Grant (1949-1995) / Genna Rae McNeil -- Drawn together by self-interest: Jewish representation of race and race relations in the early twentieth century / Hasia R. Diner -- Black Zionism: Marcus Garvey and the Jewish question / Robert A. Hill -- Franz Boas's paradox and the African American intelligentsia / Vernon J. Williams Jr. -- Black sacrifice, Jewish redemption: from Al Jolson's Jazz Singer to John Garfield's Body and Soul / Michael Rogin -- The civil rights movement and the reemergence of the left / Murray Friedman -- The southern Jewish community and the struggle for civil rights / Cheryl Greenberg -- Against the grain: Black conservatives and Jewish neoconservatives / Nancy Haggard-Gilson -- African Americans, Jews and the city: perspectives from the industrial era, 1900-1950 / Joe W. Trotter Jr. -- Keeping them "In the same boat together"?: Sufi Abdul Hamid, African Americans, Jews, and the Harlem jobs boycotts / Winston C. McDowell -- African Americans and Jews in organized labor: a case study of Detroit, 1920-1950 / Marshall F. Stevenson Jr. -- Black-Jewish conflict in the labor context: race, jobs, and institutional power / Herbert Hill -- The portrayal of Jews in The Autobiography of Malcolm X / V.P. Franklin -- The increasing significance of class: Black-Jewish conflict in the postindustrial global era / Walda Katz-Fishman and Jerome Scott.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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