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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Themes and Issues | |
| Jewish Racism, Black Anti-Semitism (1992) | 18 | |
| What Color Is Anti-Semitism? (1995) | 24 | |
| Towards a Research Agenda on Blacks and Jews in United States History (1993) | 27 | |
| Historical Impressions of Black-Jewish Relations prior to World War II (1977) | 34 | |
| Historical Impressions of Black-Jewish Relations prior to World War II: Another Comment and Response (1978) | 43 | |
| Pt. 2 | African Americans as the Chosen People | |
| "Go Down, Moses" | 53 | |
| "An Ante-Bellum Sermon" (1895) | 55 | |
| African-Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel (excerpts) (1994) | 57 | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Louise Storrow Higginson (1859) | 64 | |
| Preface to Harriet: The Moses of Her People (1886) | 65 | |
| The Kansas Fever Exodus of 1879 (1977) | 66 | |
| Found: The Lost Tribe of Black Jews (1943) | 84 | |
| Strangers in the Holy Land (1981) | 92 | |
| A-Beta Israel Hebrew Center Leaflet | 100 | |
| Pt. 3 | The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery in the New World | |
| The Role of Jews in the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1993) | 105 | |
| "And Don't Forget the Guinea Voyage": The Slave Trade of Aaron Lopez of Newport (1975) | 116 | |
| The Uncomfortable Relationship: African Enslavement in the Common History of Blacks and Jews (1994) | 131 | |
| Four Documents concerning Jews and Slavery (1762; 1806-09; 1814; 1860) | 137 | |
| Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789-1865 (1961) | 147 | |
| Revolution and Reform: The Antebellum Jewish Abolitionists (1984) | 183 | |
| The Rabbis and the Slavery Question (1957) | 198 | |
| Pt. 4 | From Emancipation to the Great Depression | |
| Document concerning Lynching (1868) | 219 | |
| "For Him the 'Schwartzers' Couldn't Do Enough": A Jewish Peddler and His Black Customers Look at Each Other (1983) | 223 | |
| Black-Jewish Relations in the Opening Years of the Twentieth Century (1975) | 237 | |
| Jews and Blacks (1978) | 245 | |
| "Is the Jew a White Man?": Press Reaction to the Leo Frank Case, 1913-1915 (1974) | 261 | |
| Leo M. Frank and the Jewish Community (1968) | 271 | |
| From "The Souls of Black Folks: A Comparison of the 1903 and 1952 Editions" (1971) | 283 | |
| Booker T. Washington's Discovery of Jews (1982) | 287 | |
| Among the Children of the East Side Jews (1905): A Black Teacher Describes Her Jewish Pupils | 296 | |
| Black Images of Jews: From Reconstruction to Depression (1978) | 300 | |
| "The Dixie Volunteers" (1917) | 316 | |
| "Silver Swanee" (1922) | 319 | |
| "Seven or Eleven (My Dixie Pair O'Dice)" (1923) | 324 | |
| "A $1,328,329 Worth of Fun! for 50 cents" (1932) | 328 | |
| From World of Our Fathers (1976) | 329 | |
| Parallels and Divergences: Assimilationist Strategies of Afro-American and Jewish Elites from 1910 to the Early 1930s (1984) | 331 | |
| Pt. 5 | The Era of the Depression and World War II | |
| From Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945) | 355 | |
| The Bronx Slave Market (1935) | 369 | |
| David Edwards to James Weldon Johnson (1926) | 375 | |
| Walter White to Charles Houston (1938) | 377 | |
| J. L. LeFlore to Berney Strauss (1938) | 378 | |
| Anti-Semitic Drive in Harlem (1941) | 380 | |
| Black-Jewish Relations in Wartime Detroit: The Marsh, Loving, Wolf Surveys and the Race Riot of 1943 (1985) | 384 | |
| A. C. MacNeal to Walter White with Enclosure for the Organized Jewry of America in Chicago, March 23, 1933 (1933) | 407 | |
| Negro Perceptions of Jews between the World Wars (1969) | 409 | |
| Comparisons by Negro Publications of the Plight of the Jews in Germany with that of the Negro in America (1942) | 427 | |
| Anti-Negroism among Jews (1943) | 444 | |
| Anti-Semitism among Negoes (1943) | 449 | |
| African Americans and Jews in Hollywood: Antagonistic Allies (1997) | 457 | |
| Pt. 6 | World War II through 1967 | |
| Negotiating Coalition: Black and Jewish Civil Rights Agencies in the Twentieth Century (1997) | 476 | |
| At 50, Levittown Contends with Legacy of Racial Bias (1997) | 495 | |
| How Did Jews Become White Folks? (1994) | 500 | |
| Large Jewish Organization in Controversy: B'nai B'rith Members Disagree on Negro Issue (1950) | 520 | |
| Herbert L. Wright to Youth Leaders (1952) | 522 | |
| Southern Jewish Views on Segregation (1956) | 524 | |
| One Episode in Southern Jewry's Response to Desegregation: An Historical Memoir (1981) | 528 | |
| Rabbis and Negro Rights in the South, 1954-1967 (1969) | 540 | |
| Press Release from Robert Gary (1956) | 559 | |
| Resolution Adopted by the Biennial Convention of the American Jewish Congress (1958) | 560 | |
| Correspondence between Isaac Toubin and Roy Wilkins (1958) | 564 | |
| Correspondence between C. L. Dellums and Roy Wilkins (1960) | 566 | |
| From The Best of Harry Golden (1967) | 567 | |
| From Negro and Jew: An Encounter in America | 570 | |
| Blacks and Jews in the Civil Rights Movement (1984) | 574 | |
| The Civil Rights Struggle (1965) | 590 | |
| Remarks at an NAACP Labor Dinner (1960) | 593 | |
| Black-Jewish Conflict in the Labor Context: Race, Jobs, and Institutional Power (1998) | 596 | |
| The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Jewish: Desegregation in the South and the Crisis of Jewish Liberalism (1997) | 620 | |
| Pt. 7 | 1968 to the Present | |
| Introduction to Negro and Jew: An Encounter in America (1967) | 641 | |
| New York's Black Anti-Semitism Scare (1969) | 645 | |
| Exploding the Myth of Black Anti-Semitism (1969) | 660 | |
| Blacks and Jews: An Interview with Julius Lester (1969) | 669 | |
| A Negro Speaks to Jews (1968) | 681 | |
| A Negro Discusses Anti-Semitism (1968) | 684 | |
| Black-Jewish Relations in 1984: A Survey of Black U.S. Congressmen (1985) | 688 | |
| Remarks before the Milwaukee Jewish Council Dinner (1973) | 702 | |
| Black-Jewish Relationships: Healing the Wounds (1974) | 707 | |
| As for the '02 Kosher-Food Rioters (1977) | 709 | |
| Such Good Friends: Blacks and Jews in Conflict (1979) | 712 | |
| The Myth of the Powerful Jew: The Black-Jewish Conflict, Part 2 (1979) | 720 | |
| Blacks and Jews in the Democratic Coalition (1986) | 729 | |
| Blacks and Jews in the Chicago Heartland (1989) | 741 | |
| Pt. 8 | Where Do We Go from Here? | |
| Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Relationships between Black and Jewish Women (1984) | 765 | |
| Blacks and Jews: Thoughts on an Agenda for the Eighties (1983) | 781 | |
| Great Expectations: Defining the Divide between Blacks and Jews (1994) | 802 | |
| Blacks and Jews: Where Are We? Where Are We Going? (1999) | 813 | |
| Teaching Ethnic Identity and Intergroup Relations: The Case of Black-Jewish Dialogue (1990) | 823 | |
| Bibliography | 837 | |
| Index | 843 |
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Cody Deckard
reviewed Strangers & Neighbors on April 22, 2007 Strangers & Neighbors
The book is separated into two parts. The first uses oral histories to narrate a loose history, an impression of the time period as a whole for queer men. He frankly discusses the limits of this type of history, the types of narratives received when a historian asks for queer interviewees ' you miss out on the huge pool of men who "liked that," but weren't "like that." Still, even though it's limited, it's useful. The second part of the book, larger in size, deals with more traditional historical methods. It's more chronological, and covers such history-ish things as laws, activist organizing, public backlash, the civil rights movement, and fictional representations (not in that order).
I was pleased by Howard's treatment of race and religion throughout the book. He rightly notes that the book would be devastatingly incomplete without discussing race and the intersection of race with sexuality, and he follows through on discussing that in pretty much every section, although he was limited in some areas by lack of available sources. Fun and significant fact ' according to Howard (although not in his words), things were relatively chill for queer men in Mississippi in the 50s, but racism was huge. After the civil rights movement got started there was backlash, and queer folks got caught up in it, in large part because the anti-civil rights people tried to accuse civil rights leaders of crazy pervy stuff in general to discredit them. Also just because the dominant classes were doubling down on their definitions of propriety in general, but ALSO because queers and queer activism were legitimately linked to the Civil Rights Movement proper. The 60s and 70s were the hardest time for queer folks, not the 50s.
Men Like That isn't a perfect book. The main issue is too much editorializing, without clearly linking his interpretation to his evidence. Interpretation, in a historian's parlance simply meaning "chitchat and conclusions based on evidence," is the whole point of history writing. I just prefer to have very explicit linkages between the discussion and the evidence being discussed, because it minimizes confusion. However, this is a very common thing in history books, and it didn't hamper my enjoyment. The work is copiously endnoted, and being a nerd working on a project, I spent a lot of quality time with those endnotes. So, I can confidently say if you want more information about any of his topics, you can easily figure out his sources and continue on your own. Another minor criticism is that he quotes Novid Parsi in glowing terms on several occasions, without mentioning that they were partners at the time. He mentions it in the acknowledgements, but not when actually using Parsi's work.
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