| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America. By Eric J. Sundquist. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2005. x, 662 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-01942-3.)
Black-Jewish relations deteriorated in the 1960s as the black power movement coincided with an accelerating Jewish assimilation into American power. Conflict flared around such issues as the dismissal of Andrew Young as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the efforts of African Americans to control their schools in Brooklyn, New York, the question of possible Jewish responsibility for Hollywood's negative stereotypes of African Americans, and organized Jewry's quarrel with the Nation of Islam.	1
Those conflicts generated an enormous corpus of books, broadsides, and other materials. Eric J. Sundquist lists twenty relevant books published since 1991 (pp. 529–30n2). That list roughly reflects the lopsided state of scholarly discourse on the subject. Most of the authors listed are Jews, and only two books (both edited collections) are solely by African Americans.	2
Sundquist promises a corrective, disinterested perspective. Neither black nor Jewish, he rejects the "empty premise," which he ascribes to multiculturalism, that one must be of a culture to "know" it (p. 16).	. . .

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