Foreword / by David Brion Davis -- Preface / by Harold Brackman -- Preface / by Ephraim Isaac -- Introduction: Diverse encounters, shared destinies -- Old World backgrounds : the Bible, race, and slavery -- New World origins -- From slavery to freedom -- Photos -- Jews, African Americans, and the making of modern Harlem -- "Let's face the music and dance" : African Americans, Jews, and popular culture -- The African American-Jewish civil rights coalition : backgrounds and contexts -- The African American-Jewish civil rights coalition : triumphs and tribulations -- Zionism in black and white -- African and African American Jews in global perspective -- Conclusion: Jews, Africans, and African Americans in "the age of Obama" -- Afterword / by Abraham Cooper.
Summary:
"This book is a long awaited work on discovering and re-discovering the long standing relations, at times warm and supportive, and at other times conflicted, and troubled linkages between Jews and African Americans in the context of American history. However, these two prominent writers go beyond the long and troubled history of Jews and African Americans in the United States, by exploring the historical origins of these two peoples by stretching their narrative to Africa and Israel and the politics therein. Brackman and Isaac are nothing but honest about their strong feelings and closely examine the historical data of these relationship in searching for an understanding of the tortured paths that it may have taken. It is a book that will be part of the controversy, but also, an essential part of the on-going conversation on the links and at times, challenging but on-going conversation"--Provided by publisher.
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