![]() | The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945 Subjects: Racism -- History; Racism -- United States -- History; Ethnic relations -- History; United States -- Ethnic relations -- History; Jews -- Ethnic identity; Blacks -- Race identity; Irish -- Ethnic identity; Race relations in literature; American literature; A major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the years between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II, The Colors of Zion argues that the cooperative efforts and sympathies among these three groups, each persecuted and subjugated in its own way, was much greater than often acknowledged today. For the Black, Jewish, and Irish writers, poets, musicians, and politicians at the center of this transatlantic study, a sense of shared wrongs inspired repeated outpourings of sympathy. If what they have to say now surprises us, it is because our current constructions of interracial and ethnic relations have overemphasized conflict and division. As George Bornstein says in his Introduction, he chooses "to let the principals speak for themselves." |
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