Meredith L RomanOpposing Jim Crow
African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937
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.
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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