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." While acknowledging past conflicts and tensions,
Bornstein insists on recovering the "lost connections" through
which these groups frequently defined their plights as well as
their aspirations. In doing so, he examines a wide range of
materials, including immigration laws, lynching, hostile race
theorists, Nazis and Klansmen, discriminatory university practices,
and Jewish publishing houses alongside popular plays like The
Melting Pot and Abie's Irish Rose, canonical novels like Ulysses
and Daniel Deronda, music from slave spirituals to jazz, poetry,
and early films such as The Jazz Singer. The models of brotherhood
that extended beyond ethnocentrism a century ago, the author
argues, might do so once again today, if only we bear them in mind.
He also urges us to move beyond arbitrary and invidious categories
of race and ethnicity.
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