We Jews and Blacks : memoir with poems

Barnstone, Willis 1927- (Author).

Summary: Willis Barnstone's third book of memoirs begins with his childhood and ends with his brother's death in 1987. A central theme is labels - names, ethnicities, all distinctions that cause suspicion, anger, and destruction. Barnstone speaks as a Jew who has from early in his life shared parallel experiences with African Americans. He dwells on his own experience of "passing", already present in the name Barnstone, a name changed before his birth to conceal - or not to advertise - that he was a Jew, which might affect admission to private schools and college, his integration into society, and his.

Record details

ISBN: 9780253344199
ISBN: 9780253110220
ISBN: 0253344190
ISBN: 025311022X
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) : illustrations
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Computer data.
Publisher: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, �2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:august.19 Includes index. Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-231) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Sammy Propp of the Black Shoes -- Black People -- Leah Scott -- My Unseen Black Grand-Stepmother -- Othello -- Reading the Bible in Hebrew -- Bar Mitzvah -- "Othello's Rose," by Yosef Komunyakaa -- Early Jewish Corruption and Bayard Rustin, the BlackNightingale -- Early Corruption -- Yeshua ben Yosef Passing as Jesus Christ -- So Long, Sammy -- Off to the Quakers -- Bayard Rustin, the Black Nightingale Singing His People into theHeart of the Makers of the Underground Railroad -- More Deadly Application Blanks -- Jews and Blacks in College, and Freedom in Europe.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.