A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America by Keith P. Feldman

Discussion Questions

• Historically, how were US movements for racial inclusion entangled with Israeli commitments to colonial domination in Palestine? What shifts emerged when centering commitments to Palestinian sovereignty?
• What is gained (analytically, politically) by framing race in a transnational context of US empire?
• The book focuses on the Cold War period. What about our political present remains tethered to that history, and what has changed?
• The book elevates writers, scholars, and artists who sought to hold the Nazi Holocaust and the Nakba in the same frame. What are the bases and insights that can be garnered from that work, and what kinds of obstacles have adversaries to such work created?

Supplementary Materials and Resources

Fayez A. Sayegh, Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (Beirut: Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, 1965). Sourced from The Freedom Archives

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Amy Kaplan, “Zionism as Anticolonialism: The Case of Exodus,” American Literary History 25, no. 4 (2013): 870–­ 95

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Edward W. Said, “Bases for Coexistence,” in The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After (New York: Vintage, 2001), 205-209.

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