{"product_id":"9781400827077","title":"Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century","description":"\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121454563568,"sku":"9781400827077","price":36.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400827077_p0.jpg?v=1763713949","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400827077","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}