1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965631503321

Autore

Bornstein George

Titolo

The colors of Zion : blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945 / / George Bornstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2011

ISBN

9780674262195

0674262190

9780674059207

0674059204

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

305.8009

Soggetti

Racism - History

Racism - United States - History

Ethnic relations - History

Jews - Identity

Black people - Race identity

Irish - Ethnic identity

Race relations in literature

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism

Irish literature - History and criticism

United States Ethnic relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Races -- Diasporas and nationalisms -- Melting pots -- Popular and institutional cultures -- The gathering storm: the 1930s and World War II.

Sommario/riassunto

This comparative study focuses on three groups often seen as antagonistic—Blacks, Jews, and Irish. Resolutely aware of past tensions, Bornstein argues that the pendulum has swung too far in that direction and that it is time to recover the history of lost connections and cooperation among the groups. The chronological range stretches from Frederick Douglass’s tour of Ireland during the Great Famine of the



1840s through the 1940s with the catastrophe of World War II. The study ends with the concept of the Righteous Gentile commemorated at the Israeli Holocaust Memorial, Yad Vashem--non-Jews who during the Holocaust risked their own lives to rescue Jews from the horror of the Holocaust. Bornstein expands the term here to include all those Irish, Jewish, or African American figures who fought against narrow identification only with their own group and instead championed a wider and more humane vision of a shared humanity that sees hybridity rather than purity and love rather than resentment. The identity politics and culture wars of recent decades often made recognizing those positive qualities problematic. But with the election of a mixed-race president who himself embodies mixture and mutual respect (and who famously described himself as a “mutt”), the shallow and arbitrary nature of narrow identity politics become evident. This study recuperates strong voices from the past of all three groups in order to let them speak for themselves.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910917178103321

Autore

Doll Agnieszka

Titolo

Political Activist Ethnography : Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athabasca : , : Athabasca University Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9781771994002

1771994002

9781771993999

1771993995

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

BisaillonLaura

WalbyKevin

Disciplina

303.48/4072

Soggetti

Action research

Ethnology - Political aspects - Research

Ethnology - Sociological aspects - Research

Political activists - Research

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Political activist ethnography is a research strategy that reveals how ruling regimes are organized so activists and social movements can fight them. This volume adopts an approach to inquiry that produces knowledge for activists and is a must-read for humanities and social sciences scholars keen on assisting activists and advancing social change.