Blacks and Jews on the couch : psychoanalytic reflections on Black-Jewish conflict

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Blacks and Jews on the couch : psychoanalytic reflections on Black-Jewish conflict

edited by Alan Helmreich and Paul Marcus

Praeger, 1998

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Based on a conference which took place on May 7, 1995

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Black-Jewish relations—at the symbolic level—are in shambles, writes Cornel West. One has only to recall the 1991 Crown Heights tragedy and its aftermath to recognize to what extent Black-Jewish relations have deteriorated. The emergence of frequently anti-Semitic black demagogues like Louis Farrakhan and Leonard Jeffries and the Jewish community's turn to neo-conservatism have only made matters worse. Mistrust, ambivalence, and other negative feelings characterize much of Black-Jewish relations. Unlike most books on this topic which are written from a sociocultural, historical, and literary perspective, this anthology looks at the psychological motives, beliefs, and desires that impair relations between the two groups. For example, unresolved vulnerabilities in respective communities from the Holocaust and slavery remain driving and complex passions that still disrupt Black-Jewish relations. Psychoanalysis is a powerful conceptual tool to untangle these issues and other aspects of the larger societal race-relations problem.

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Introducion: Black-Jewish Conflict by Alan Helmreich and Paul Marcus Time Line of Black-Jewish Relations by Alan Helmreich and Paul Marcus Black-Jewish Conflict and the Regions of the Mind by Alan Hemreich and Paul Marcus If I Am You, Then You Are Fake by C. Fred Alford Black Liberation and the Jewish Question by E. Victor Wolfenstein Black Myths and Black Madness: Is Black Anti-semitism Different? by Mortimer Ostow Ruptures in Time: The Branch that Holds the Fork in African American and Jewish American History by Maurice Apprey and Howard F. Stein Unlearning Racism at Women's Music Festivals by Cynthia Burack and Bonnie J. Morris Speaking the Unspeakable by Aisha Abbasi Sharing the Mark of Cain: The Jewish and African American Communities in America by A. Michele Morgan The Conflict between Blacks and Jews: A Lacanian Analysis by Mark Bracher Black-Jewish Relations: A Social and Mythic Alliance by Lee Jenkins Practical Psychoanalytically Informed Suggestions for Communal Leaders for Improving Black-Jewish Relations by Alan Helmreich and Paul Marcus Index

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