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A Mask for Privilege - Anti-semitism in America (Hardcover)
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A Mask for Privilege - Anti-semitism in America (Hardcover)
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Why in America should the most sinister of European social diseases
have taken root? Why should that disease have spread from its
seemingly anachronistic beginning in the Gilded Age until it
infected many of our great magazines and newspapers? Until it
determined not only where a man might stay the night, but where he
got his education and how he earned his living? This book answers
such questions by exposing the myths with which the anti-Semite
surrounds his position. By taking away the "mask of privilege" it
reveals the source of such prejudice for what it is--the
determination of the forces of special privilege, with their
hangers-on, to maintain their select and exclusive status
regardless of the consequences to other human beings. Like Carey
McWilliams's other books on minorities in America, 'A Mask for
Privilege' reveals the facts of discrimination so that the fogs of
prejudice may be dispersed by the truth. It traces the growth of
discrimination and persecution in America from 1877 to 1947, shows
why Jews are such good scapegoats, and contrasts the Jewish
stereotype--"too pushing, too cunning" with that of other minority
groups. Then it looks at the anti-Semitic personality and
concludes, with Sartre, that here is "a man who is afraid"--of
himself. In his stirring new introduction, Wilson Carey McWilliams
calls this a work of recovery "evoking names and moods and
incidents now either half-forgotten or lost to memory." This
brilliant analysis of anti-Semitism is a documented and forceful
attempt to inform Americans about the danger of the undemocratic,
antisocial practices in their midst, and to suggest a positive
program to arrest a course too similar to that which led to the
Holocaust. It transcends majority-minority relations and becomes an
analysis of antidemocratic practices, which affect the whole fabric
of American life.
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