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• Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States

  Author:Robert PhilipsonFrom:Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 19982,054 words Book review Edited by JACK SALZMAN and CORNEL WEST. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Reviewed by ROBERT PHILIPSON This is the liberal version of the story. Jews came to the United States in search of religious freedom...

• The Harlem Renaissance as postcolonial phenomenon

  Author:Robert PhilipsonFrom:African American Review (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20067,780 words Article 1630L"Wonder why he chose an American college? Most of the chiefs' sons'll go to Oxford or bust. I know--this fellow is probably from Liberia or thereabouts. American influence--see?"--Rudolph Fisher, The Conjure Man Dies...

• Ebrahim Hussein: Theatre swahili et nationalisme tanzanien

  Author:Robert PhilipsonFrom:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 1999616 words Book review Ebrahim Hussein: Theatre swahili et nationalisme tanzanien, by Alain Ricard. Paris: Karthala, 1998. 187 pp. ISBN 2-86537-834-9. Ebrahim Hussein is a hard sell. He is, after Wole Soyinka and Athol Fugard, the most...

• Balzac in Zanzibar: the Swahili novel as disseminator of bourgeois individualism

  Author:Robert PhilipsonFrom:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 199261 words Article

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• The making and unmaking of a white Africanist

  Author:Robert PhilipsonFrom:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 19943,538 words Article An unemployed white male academic laments the unwritten code in academia which does not allow a white man to teach Black Studies. The academic, who has done extensive work in African Studies, recounts the beginnings of...

• Literary Criticism as Anything But Literary Criticism

  Author:Robert PhilipsonFrom:Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought (Vol. 51, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20024,227 words Book review Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature. By ETHAN GOFFMAN. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century...

• Flight from Egypt: Blacks, Jews, Diasporas

  Author:ROBERT PHILIPSONFrom:Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought (Vol. 50, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 20017,365 words Article "Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O people of Israel?" saith the Lord. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir? - Amos 9:7 LET US...