A mask for privilege: anti-Semitism in America

Boston : Little, Brown, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiii, 299 pages ; 21 cm. Notes; Bibliographical references in ""Notes"" (p. [271]-277) and index. Contents; I. The white frost -- 1. What caused the freeze? -- 2. The wedge is driver -- 3. The technique of dominance -- II. From little acorns -- 1. A delayed reaction -- 2. Ritual murder in America -- 3. Bolt from the blue -- 4. The ever widening stain -- III. The snakes of Ireland -- 1. The classic tradition -- 2. The myth makers -- 3. The myth of undesirability -- 4. 1000 Harvard graduates -- 5. The buffalo and the Anglo-Saxon -- 6. ""Pathetic pilgrims to forgotten shrines"" -- 7. Christmas Eve in Litchfield -- IV. A most peculiar disease -- 1. The best of scapegoats -- 2. The nature of the weapon -- 3. Bismarck's insect powder -- 4. The enemy within -- V. The system of exclusion -- 1. The politics of exclusion -- 2. The old school tie -- 3. The quota system -- VI. In the middle of the middle class -- 1. The marginal man -- 2. The marginal business -- 3. The marginal class -- 4. Economic pressures and group differences -- VII. The Jewish stereotype -- 1. Social myths -- 2. The Jew as migrant -- VIII. The function of the crackpot -- 1. Sappers and shock troops -- 2. The armchair anti-Semites -- 3. American action -- IX. The Atlanta Putsch -- 1. The leaders -- 2. The background -- 3. The denouement -- X. No ordinary task -- 1. Drain the swamps -- 2. Remove the barriers -- 3. Prejudice is indivisible -- 4. Define a real scapegoat -- 5. Take away the whip -- 6. ""When the demagogue comes to town"" -- XI. The yellow myth. Subjects; Antisemitism United States. Jews United States Social conditions. Ethnic relations. Jews Social conditions. Jews United States. Antisemitism. Antisemitism United States. Jews United States. Antisemitism United States. Jews United States Social conditions. United States Ethnic relations. United States Social conditions. Genre; Bibliography.