The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State - Rilegato

Gelman, Emmaia

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0520410440 ISBN 13: 9780520410442

Casa editrice: University of California Press, 2026

Riassunto

"A gutsy, razor-sharp demystification of a powerful organization."―Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Emmaia Gelman's gripping book sent chills down my spine.”―Robin D.G. Kelley

The first-ever history of the Anti-Defamation League and its determined, century-long alliance with Western empire.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is a major US political organization, yet its politics have gone largely unexamined. While the ADL is often portrayed as a defender against antisemitism and racism, its history shows that it is better understood as a proponent of the racial state and US empire. From "correcting" the embarrassing racial difference of immigrant Jews to policing the leftist politics of Black, Arab, and Jewish groups, the ADL pursued a conservative version of civil rights paired with aggressive anti-communism. Even as it became an authority on white nationalism in the 1970s, the ADL joined with the emerging anti-left, anti-Arab, and pro-Western neoconservative movement.

This history presaged the ADL's work, from the 1980s to the present, in developing the hate crimes framework as a pro-state policing project, which soon merged with the "War on Terror," the "antisemitism scare," and anti-Palestinian racism. The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State presents the ADL's history through its conflicts with social justice movements, illuminating the ADL's outsize role in shaping the ideas about race and rights that have underwritten US empire.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of California Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520410440
• ISBN 13: 9780520410442
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 342
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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