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Title Holocaust memory and racism in the postwar world / edited by Shirli Gilbert and Avril Alba
Published Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2019]

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Contents Introduction / Shirli Gilbert and Avril Alba -- Part I: Responses to Racism after World War II: 1 Race, the Holocaust, and Colonial/Postcolonial Britain / Tony Kushner -- 2 "The Jim Crow of All the Ages": The Impact of Hitler, World War II, and the Holocaust on Black Civil Rights in Alabama / Dan J. Puckett -- 3 From Undesirable to Unassimilable: The Racialization of the "Jew" in South Africa / Milton Shain -- 4 A Study of Conflicting Images in the Australian Media: Holocaust Suffering and Persistent Anti-Jewish Racism / Suzanne D. Rutland -- Part II: Jews and Racism: 5 Black and White: Yiddish Writers Encounter Indigenous Australia / David Slucki -- 6 Who Are the Jews Now?: Memories of the Holocaust in Georgia Brown's East End, 1968 / James Jordan -- 7 "A Straight and Not Very Long Road": American Jews, Apartheid, and the Holocaust / Marjorie N. Feld -- 8 Race, Holocaust Memory, and American Jewish Politics / Michael E. Staub -- Part III: Literary Connections across Time -- 9 In the Nazi Cinema: Race, Visuality, and Identification in Fanon and Klüger / Michael Rothberg -- 10 Caribbean Literature and Global Holocaust Memory / Sarah Phillips Casteel -- 11 A Failure of Memory?: Revisiting the Demidenko/ Darville Debate / Avril Alba -- Part IV: Claiming the Holocaust: 12 Deliberating the Holocaust and the Nakba: Disruptive Empathy and Binationalism in Israel/Palestine / Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg -- 13 Shifting Responses to Antisemitism and Racism: Temporary Exhibitions at the Jewish Holocaust Centre / Steven Cooke and Donna-Lee Frieze -- 14 Nazism and Racism in South African Textbooks / Shirli Gilbert -- 15 "Never Forget": Intersecting Memories of the Holocaust and the Settler Colonial Genocide in Canada / Dorota Glowacka -- Conclusion / Shirli Gilbert and Avril Alba -- Contributors -- Index
Summary Traces the history of connections between Holocaust memory and the discourse of anti-racism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 05, 2019)
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
Racism -- History -- 20th century
Racism -- History -- 21st century
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Racism.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Gilbert, Shirli, editor
Alba, Avril, 1970- editor
ISBN 0814342701
9780814342701