Blacks, Reds, and Russians : Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise /

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"One of the most compelling, yet little known stories of race relations in the twentieth century is the account of blacks who chose to leave the United States to be involved in the Soviet Experiment in the 1920s and 1930s. Frustrated by the limitations imposed by racism in their home country, A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Carew, Joy Gleason (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2010]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Visitors, Foreign.
Race relations.
International relations.
Intercultural communication.
Intellectual life.
African Americans.
African American scientists.
African American intellectuals.
Visiteurs etrangers > URSS > Histoire.
Scientifiques noirs americains > URSS > Biographies.
Intellectuels noirs americains > URSS > Biographies.
Noirs americains > URSS > Biographies.
Noirs americains > URSS > Histoire.
Intercultural communication > Soviet Union.
Visitors, Foreign > Soviet Union > History.
African American scientists > Soviet Union > Biography.
African American intellectuals > Soviet Union > Biography.
African Americans > Soviet Union > Biography.
African Americans > Soviet Union > History.
United States.
Soviet Union.
URSS > Vie intellectuelle > 1917-1970.
United States > Relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Relations > United States.
Soviet Union > Intellectual life > 1917-1970.
Soviet Union > Race relations.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A journey begins
  • Early sojourners Claude McKay and Otto Huiswood : shaping the "Negro question"
  • Harry Haywood, KUTVA, and training black cadres
  • W.E.B. Du Bois and the Soviet experiment
  • Robert Robinson and the technical specialists
  • George Washington Carver, Oliver Golden, and the Soviet experiment
  • The agricultural specialists journey to the Soviet Union
  • Langston Hughes and the Black and White film group
  • Paul Robeson's search for a society free of racism
  • The expatriates : the purges, the war years, and beyond
  • William "Bill" Davis, the American national exhibit, and U.S. public diplomacy
  • The Cold War, solidarity building, and the recruitment of new sojourners.

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