A shadow over Palestine : the imperial life of race in America /

"Upon signing the first U.S. arms agreement with Israel in 1962, John F. Kennedy assured Golda Meir that the United States had "a special relationship with Israel in the Middle East," comparable only to that of the United States with Britain. After more than five decades such a statem...

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Main Author: Feldman, Keith P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: James Baldwin the in Holy Land
  • Introduction: special relationships
  • Specters of genocide : Cold War exceptions and the contradictions of liberalism
  • Black Power's Palestine : permanent war and the global freedom struggle
  • Jewish conversions : color blindness, anti-imperialism, and Jewish national liberation
  • Arab American awakening : Edward Said, area studies, and Palestine's contrapuntal futures
  • Moving toward home : women of color feminisms and the Lebanon conjuncture
  • Epilogue: on shadows.