Featuring over 750 entries, this handbook serves as a comprehensive guide to significant milestones in American literature, spanning from colonial times to the present. Its alphabetical arrangement makes it easy to navigate, providing readers with an accessible resource to explore key authors, works, and literary movements throughout American history.
To communicate that history, the essays gathered here move from the common demonization of Blacks and Jews in the Middle Ages, to an accurate assessment of Jewish involvement in the slave trade; to the confluence of Black migration from the South and Jewish immigration from Europe into Northern cities between 1880 and 1935; to the meaningful alliance forged during the Civil Rights movement and the conflicts over Black Power and the struggle in the Middle East that effectively ended that alliance.