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Biography & Autobiography

Struggles in the Promised Land

by Jack Salzman, Cornel West
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Overview

... Jews and Blacks did not compete against each other for jobs . They occupied such very different niches in the ... selling merchandise of every type . But the specifics can only be sketchily pieced together . Statements in the Black ...

Synopsis

To communicate that history, the essays gathered here move from the common demonization of Blacks and Jews in the Middle Ages, to an accurate assessment of Jewish involvement in the slave trade; to the confluence of Black migration from the South and Jewish immigration from Europe into Northern cities between 1880 and 1935; to the meaningful alliance forged during the Civil Rights movement and the conflicts over Black Power and the struggle in the Middle East that effectively ended that alliance.

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Book Details

Published
June 5, 1997
Pages
449
ISBN
9780195088281

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