La Scuola di Francoforte in esilio. Storia di un’inchiesta sull’antisemitismo nella classe operaia americana
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[1] Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot
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- Localización: Memoria e ricerca, ISSN 1127-0195, ISSN-e 1972-523X, Nº 31 (maggio-agosto), 2009 (Ejemplar dedicado a: L'Europa in esilio : la migrazione degli intellettuali verso le Americhe tra le due guerre), págs. 121-140
- Idioma: italiano
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- The Frankfurt School in exile. History of a survey on anti-Semitism in the American working class
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Resumen
Between July and December 1944 the Institute for social research of Columbia University made known the results of a survey on anti-Semitism in the American working class carried out by the Jewish Labor Committee of New York. The results of the research confirmed the rooting of a few stereotypes and prejudices on Jews in some specific segments of the American working world: more widespread among “blue collars” rather than “white collars” and among the white population rather than the black. This form of anti-Semitism involved, paradoxically, also the workers of factories producing weapons to fight against the Third Reich. A form of anti-Semitism which did not stop with the end of World War II but turned, using the same mechanisms analyzed by migrant German sociologists, into a discrimination against communist militants
