{"product_id":"troubling-the-waters-black-jewish-relations-in-the-american-century-paperback","title":"Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCheryl Lynn Greenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America? And if there was, what happened to it? In \u003ci\u003eTroubling the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e, Cheryl Greenberg answers these questions more definitively than they have ever been answered before, drawing the richest portrait yet of what was less an alliance than a tumultuous political engagement--but one that energized the civil rights revolution, shaped the agenda of liberalism, and affected the course of American politics as a whole. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on extensive new research in the archives of organizations such as the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League, Greenberg shows that a special black-Jewish political relationship did indeed exist, especially from the 1940s to the mid-1960s--its so-called \"golden era\"--and that this engagement galvanized and broadened the civil rights movement. But even during this heyday, she demonstrates, the black-Jewish relationship was anything but inevitable or untroubled. Rather, cooperation and conflict coexisted throughout, with tensions caused by economic clashes, ideological disagreements, Jewish racism, and black anti-Semitism, as well as differences in class and the intensity of discrimination faced by each group. These tensions make the rise of the relationship all the more surprising--and its decline easier to understand. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tracing the growth, peak, and deterioration of black-Jewish engagement over the course of the twentieth century, Greenberg shows that the history of this relationship is very much the history of American liberalism--neither as golden in its best years nor as absolute in its collapse as commonly thought.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The best-researched and most comprehensive account yet of Black-Jewish relations in the twentieth century. The messy complexities of the relationship, the insensitivities displayed on all sides, are here revealed for all to see. Sobering, realistic, and definitive.\"\u003cb\u003e--Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For readers who puzzle about what happened to the fabled alliance between Blacks and Jews, \u003ci\u003eTroubling the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e provides the authoritative answer. It is testament to Cheryl Lynn Greenberg's discipline as a historian, as well as her personal acumen and devotion to justice, that she is able to take up so fraught a subject and to give us such an illuminating account.\"\u003cb\u003e--Stephen Steinberg, author of \u003ci\u003eTurning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A masterful assessment of the relationships between African Americans and Jews in the twentieth century. Greenberg's deeply researched and well-written analysis provides new materials, fresh insights, and a keen understanding of the plight of both groups. Her book is bias-free while sympathetically presenting the perspectives of African Americans and Jews. Vastly superior to everything else that has previously been written on the topic, \u003ci\u003eTroubling the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e will become the standard by which all other works on the subject are measured.\"\u003cb\u003e--Leonard Dinnerstein, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Cheryl Lynn Greenberg's \u003ci\u003eTroubling the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e is engaging and well researched, and the author insightful and thorough. The book fills a void in the historiography and will make a much-needed addition to courses in African American Studies, American history, and sociology. It is an invitation to explore some of the most compelling issues in race politics today.\"\u003cb\u003e--Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of \u003ci\u003eElla Baker and the Black Freedom Movement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCheryl Lynn Greenberg\u003c\/b\u003e is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of \u003ci\u003e\"Or Does it Explode?\"\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo Ask for an Equal Chance\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor of \u003ci\u003eA Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53755561443661,"sku":"9780691146164","price":104.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/MkR6eVRTOFh1d3JHSitURk9qQXBVZz09.webp?v=1776719385","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/troubling-the-waters-black-jewish-relations-in-the-american-century-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}