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Strangers in the Land : Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America / Eric J Sundquist.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674019423
  • 9780674044142
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.892407309045
LOC classification:
  • E184.36.A34 -- S86 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. America's Jews -- 2. The Black Nation Israel -- 3. Black Skin, Yellow Star; or, Blues for Atticus Finch -- 4. Exodus -- 5. Black Power, Jewish Power -- 6. Bernard Malamud's Dark Ghetto -- 7. Holocaust -- 8. Spooks -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: The importance of blacks for Jews and Jews for blacks in conceiving of themselves as Americans, when both remained outsiders to the privileges of full citizenship, is a matter of voluminous but perplexing record. A monumental work of literary criticism and cultural history, Strangers in the Land draws upon politics, sociology, law, religion, and popular culture to illuminate a vital, highly conflicted interethnic partnership over the course of a century.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. America's Jews -- 2. The Black Nation Israel -- 3. Black Skin, Yellow Star; or, Blues for Atticus Finch -- 4. Exodus -- 5. Black Power, Jewish Power -- 6. Bernard Malamud's Dark Ghetto -- 7. Holocaust -- 8. Spooks -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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The importance of blacks for Jews and Jews for blacks in conceiving of themselves as Americans, when both remained outsiders to the privileges of full citizenship, is a matter of voluminous but perplexing record. A monumental work of literary criticism and cultural history, Strangers in the Land draws upon politics, sociology, law, religion, and popular culture to illuminate a vital, highly conflicted interethnic partnership over the course of a century.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)