Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Mosaic; Jewish Student Journal
Angaben zur Quelle:
13 (1992) 11-26
Keywords:
African Americans Relations with Jews
;
Jews
Abstract:
Surveying theories on why Black-Jewish relations have deteriorated so much since the 1960s, proposes a new explanation for this phenomenon: from the 1960s, and especially in the 1970s, the Black and Jewish communities, more than other ethnic groups in the USA, turned inward, and became ethnocentric and distanced from the American mainstream and its issues. In this process, Blacks lumped the Jews with other whites, whereas Jews began to lump the Blacks with other Gentiles. Jews ceased to ignore the antisemitism of some Blacks, which had always existed and stemmed from the socioeconomic gap between the two communities. Affirmative action and the conflicting attitudes to Israel aggravated the discontent between the two communities.
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