Meredith L Roman

Opposing Jim Crow

African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937

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Produktbeschreibung

Opposing Jim Crow examines the Soviet policy of antiracism from 1928 to 1937, when leaders gained propagandistic value at home and abroad by drawing attention to U.S. racism and the routine violation of human rights that African Americans suffered as U.S. citizens.   

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780803215528
• ISBN-10: 0803215525
• Artikelnr.: 34748063

Autorenporträt

Meredith L. Roman is an assistant professor of history at SUNY–Brockport. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, International Labor and Working-Class History, Race & Class, and Critique: A Journal of Socialist Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: The Birth of a Nation
1. American Racism on Trial and the Poster Child for Soviet Antiracism
2. "This Is Not Bourgeois America": Representations of American Racial
Apartheid and Soviet Racelessness
3. The Scottsboro Campaign: Personalizing American Racism and Speaking
Antiracism
4. African American Architects of Soviet Antiracism and the Challenge of
Black and White
5. The Promises of Soviet Antiracism and the Integration of Moscow's
International Lenin School
Epilogue: Circus and Going Soft on American Racism
Notes
Bibliography
Index