Böcker av Gerd Korman

By examining Jewish experiences between the American Civil War and the African American Civil Rights Revolution, this book focuses on citizens who usually spent their daily lives in Black and white "e;peoplehoods."e; Some of the white ones, commanding the nation's "e;public square,"e; structured a segregated republic and capitalist economy that would experience WWII and the news about the Holocaust that murdered millions of Jews. This political economy sustained a hierarchy of privatized ethnic groups whose race and religion, in their norms of "e;ethnicking,"e; was used to deprive them of legal and equal collective standing. This Was America is a book about those privatized identities that the years of the Civil Rights Revolution would bring into the republic's public square.

Fleeing the Nazis in the months before World War II, the Korman family scattered from a Polish refugee camp with the hope of reuniting in America. This work is a memoir of one of the sons of the family, Gerd Korman, following his path, from the family's deportation from Hamburg, through his time in rural England, to the family's reunited life.