Beyond the color line and the Iron Curtain Reading encounters between Black and Red, 1922-1963
Baldwin Kate A2002
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Total copies: 2
Subject: By examining the works of writers such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson, this book explains the impact of the Soviet Union on African Americans. These figures each travelled in the Soviet Union between the 1920s and the 1960s, and each reflect on Communism and Soviet life in works that have been largely unavailable, overlooked or understudied. This volume demonstrates how they used their encounters with the U.S.S.R. to rethink the exclusionary practices limiting citizenship in the United States and to move toward internationalism that was a dynamic mix of antiracism, anti-colonialism, and social democracy. The author also uses archival material from soviet sources, including articles in Pravda and Ogonek, political cartoons, Comintern files, Russian translations of unpublished manuscripts, and mistranslations of major texts to consider how these writers influenced and were influenced by both Soviet and US culture.
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Edition:
1st ed
Imprint:
Durham 2002 Duke University Press
Collation:
346p
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ISBN:
0822329905
Dewey class:
HI.3BALHI.3/BAL
Local class:
HI.3/BAL
Language:
English
BRN:
1840969