Struggles in the Promised Land : Towards a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States.
Recent flashpoints in Black-Jewish relations--Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, the violence in Crown Heights, Leonard Jeffries' polemical speeches, the O.J. Simpson verdict, and the contentious responses to these events--suggest just how wide the gap has become in the fragile coalition...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Recent flashpoints in Black-Jewish relations--Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, the violence in Crown Heights, Leonard Jeffries' polemical speeches, the O.J. Simpson verdict, and the contentious responses to these events--suggest just how wide the gap has become in the fragile coalition that was formed during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Instead of critical dialogue and respectful exchange, we have witnessed battles that too often consist of vulgar name-calling and self-righteous finger-pointing. Absent from these exchanges are two vitally important and potentially healing elemen. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (449 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-422) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781602566255 1602566259 1280442948 9781280442940 1423734777 9781423734772 0198024924 9780198024927 |