A right to sing the blues
African Americans, Jews, and American popular song
Blues
Relations with Jews
African americans, music
Blues (Music)
Popular music, history and criticism
Joden
Race identity
Negers
Popular music
Identity
Music
Jews
African Americans
History and criticism
"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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