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A right to sing the blues

African Americans, Jews, and American popular song

by Jeffrey Paul Melnick

1999 277 pages eng

"Black-Jewish relations," Jeffrey Melnick argues, has mostly been a way for American Jews to talk about their ambivalent racial status, a narrative collectively constructed at critical moments, when particular conflicts demand an explanation. Remarkably flexible, this narrative can organize diffuse …

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