Meredith L. Roman

Opposing Jim Crow (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Before the Nazis came to power in Germany, Soviet officials labeled the United States the most racist country in the world. Photographs, children's stories, films, newspaper articles, political education campaigns, and court proceedings exposed the hypocrisy of America's racial democracy. In contrast, the Soviets represented the USSR itself as a superior society where racism was absent and identified African Americans as valued allies in resisting an imminent imperialist war against the first workers' state.

Meredith L. Roman's Opposing Jim Crow examines the period between 1928 and 1937, when the promotion of antiracism by party and trade union officials in Moscow became a priority policy. Soviet leaders stood to gain considerable propagandistic value at home and abroad by drawing attention to U.S. racism, their actions simultaneously directed attention to the routine violation of human rights that African Americans suffered as citizens of the United States. Soviet...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803240841
• Artikelnr.: 37852888

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