Black & Jewish?!
Why WERE Black and Jewish communities aligned?
Race-Blind But Make It Racist
Extremely Relevant Case Study
When Allyship Expired
100
This rapper behind Hotline Bling has a Black father and Jewish mother.
Who is Drake?
100
This shared enemy during the 1930s and 1940s helped politically unite Black and Jewish organisations.
What is fascism/Nazism?
100
This discriminatory housing practice marked Black neighbourhoods as “hazardous” for investment.
What is redlining?
100
Oumar's dad is from this African country.
What is Senegal?
100
This policy aimed to increase minority representation in schools and workplaces and became a major source of tension between Blacks and Jews.
What is affirmative action?
200
This actress from Black-ish is the daughter of Diana Ross and a Jewish music executive.
Who is Tracee Ellis Ross?
200
This major Black civil rights organisation worked closely with Jewish lawyers and donors.
What is the NAACP?
200
This federal post-WWII program disproportionately helped white veterans gain housing and education access.
What is the GI Bill?
200
This parent of Palmer was born Jewish.
Bonus Point if you know his full name.
Who is Daniel Alan Sperau, her dad?
200
Many Jewish critics opposed affirmative action because they believed it violated this system of advancement based on “earning” success.
What is meritocracy?
300
This musician with hits like Fly Away is the son of Roxie Roker and a Jewish TV producer.
Who is Lenny Kravitz?
300
These two groups bonded partly through comparisons of these historical traumas.
What is the Holocaust/Jewish persecution in Europe and slavery?
300
My dissertation argues that these supposedly objective hiring methods still disadvantaged Black applicants because they ignored unequal access to resources.
What are race-blind applications/abstract tests?
300
Oumar and Palmer's celebrity hall passes (some would say, who could separate our Black-Jewish coalition) are these two celebrities.
For each incorrect answer, you must take a shot.
Oumar: Who is Sabrina Carpenter?
Palmer: Who is Bad Bunny?
300
This movement increasingly rejected interracial coalition politics in favour of Black nationalism and self-determination.
What is Black Power?
400
This jazz performer converted to Judaism after marrying actress May Britt.
Who is Sammy Davis Jr.?
400
The overarching term for this shared set of ideals: democracy, equality, and civic obligation, helped unite Black and Jewish communities during the Civil Rights Era.
What is liberalism?
400
Black Americans received less than this percentage of federally insured home loans between 1945 and 1959.
What is 2%?
400
Palmer and Oumar have celebrated this number of major Jewish holidays since they started dating.
What is 13?
(4 Passovers, 3 Rosh Hashanahs, 3 Yom Kippurs, and 3 Hanukkahs)
400
This civil rights organisation eventually expelled many white members as it shifted toward Black Power politics.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
500
This comedian wrote The Last Black Unicorn about her Black and Jewish upbringing.
Who is Tiffany Haddish?
500
These organisations were imperative to the political and social coalition of Blacks and Jews.
You will be able to give a shot to the other team for as many as you can name correctly.
- NAACP
(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) - National Urban League
(NUL) - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) - Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE) - Anti-Defamation League
(ADL) - American Jewish Committee
(AJC) - National Council of Jewish Women
(NCJW)
500
My dissertation argues liberalism failed because formal legal equality did not produce this kind of equality for Black Americans.
What is material equality?
500
Oumar and Palmer's first bonding moment, when they first met at the Union, was over this shared enjoyment.
What is Diet Coke?
500
According to my dissertation, liberalism failed because it promised formal equality while still reproducing this.
What is structural inequality/racial hierarchy?