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Residual Neighbors: Jewish-African American Interactions in Cleveland From 1900 to 1970

Baden, John K.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1291421308

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2011, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, History.
This master’s thesis examines Jewish and African American relations in Cleveland, Ohio from 1900 to 1970. It argues that interactions between Jews and African Americans in the North have been forged by their history of shared urban space which fostered inter-reliance between Jewish entrepreneurs and their black customers. While this African American-Jewish inter-reliance has been explored in the context of civil rights, an examination of street-level interactions in shared urban spaces such as Jewish-run corner-stores, nightclubs, music shops, housing, and even criminal enterprises reveals that relations between African Americans and Jews have been driven as much by entrepreneurship, markets, and patterns of consumption as by their history as two oppressed peoples. Although this study focuses on Cleveland, it also illustrates some of the basic dynamics of demographic change and inter-ethnic activity in urban America during the twentieth century.
John Grabowski (Committee Chair)
Rhonda Y. Williams (Committee Member)
John H. Flores (Committee Member)
92 p.
History
black-Jewish relations; Cleveland; African American Jewish relations; ethnic relations; Cleveland Jewish history; Cleveland black history; black Jewish relations; urban geography; Cleveland African American History

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  • Baden, J. K. (2011). Residual Neighbors: Jewish-African American Interactions in Cleveland From 1900 to 1970 [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1291421308

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Baden, John. Residual Neighbors: Jewish-African American Interactions in Cleveland From 1900 to 1970. 2011. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1291421308.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Baden, John. "Residual Neighbors: Jewish-African American Interactions in Cleveland From 1900 to 1970." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1291421308

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