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UNINA9910459316703321 |
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Greenberg Cheryl Lynn |
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Troubling the waters [[electronic resource] ] : Black-Jewish relations in the American century / / Cheryl Lynn Greenberg |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2006 |
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9786612157769 |
1-282-15776-0 |
1-4008-2707-8 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Politics and society in twentieth-century America |
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African Americans - Relations with Jews |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-337) and index. |
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Settling in -- Of our economic strivings -- Wars and rumors of wars -- And why not every man? -- Red menace -- Things fall apart. |
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Was there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America? And if there was, what happened to it? In Troubling the Waters, 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. 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 1940's to the mid-1960's--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 |
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group. These tensions make the rise of the relationship all the more surprising--and its decline easier to understand. 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. |
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UNINA9910786259203321 |
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Autore |
Gabriel Rami |
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Why I buy [[electronic resource] ] : self, taste, and consumer society in America / / Rami Gabriel |
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Bristol, : Intellect, 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (174 p.) |
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339.47 |
339.470973 |
381.30973 |
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Consumption (Economics) - United States - History |
Consumers - United States - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: My Self and Consumer Society; Chapter 1: Dualism: What I Really Am; Chapter 2: Individualism: The Liberal Dream of the Rugged Individualist; Chapter 3: Expressivism: I Sing Myself; Chapter 4: Consumer Society; Chapter 5: Advertisements: Representations of the Self; Chapter 6: The Rest of the World: An Empirical Test; Conclusion: What Next?; Bibliography; Appendix; Index; Back Cover |
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This is a book about the relationship between the self and consumer society in America. There are many books and articles that explain consumerism in the twentieth century. through politics, economics, and |
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sociology. Th is book is about both the psychological roots of consumer society in the self-why we buy-and the reciprocal influences between self and society. Why I buy explains how consumption came to imbue social and personal life and value. By exploring the relationship between oue individual needs and our institutions, Gabriel shows how many of the difficulties faced by our shared social |
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