Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War

ISBN-13: 9781108486972 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str.

Sarah C. Dunstan

Opis

Innovative new study mapping African American and Francophone black intellectual collaborations over human rights and citizenship from 1919 to 1963.

Recenzje

'This sophisticated, impeccably researched treatment is great for general collections … Recommended.' R. C. Cottrell, Choice Magazine

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Black is a country, n'est-ce pas? Race, rights and nation in the Wilsonian moment; 2. Anti-Imperial comrades: black radicalism and the communist possibility; 3. La vogue nègre: racial renaissance at the intersection of republic, empire and democracy; 4. Civilization's gone to hell? Revolutionary poetry, humanism and the crisis of sovereignty; 5. Give me liberty!: Black intellectual struggles against fascism in the fight for democracy; 6. 'A new fascism, the American brand': anti-communism, anti-imperialism and the struggle for the west; 7. 'The Sword of Damocles': Présence Africaine and decolonization in the face of the Cold War; Epilogue.