Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain : Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922-1963 /

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Re-examines the relations between African Americans and the Soviet Union from a more transnational perspective and shows how these relations were crucial in the formation of Black modernism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baldwin, Kate A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Communisme.
Negers.
Communism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African American authors > Political and social views.
African American arts.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Communisme > États-Unis.
Arts noirs americains > 20e siecle.
Écrivains noirs americains > Pensee politique et sociale.
Intellectuels noirs americains > Voyages > URSS.
Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
Communism > United States.
African American arts > 20th century.
African American intellectuals > Travel > Soviet Union.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
United States.
Soviet Union.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The demand for a new kind of person: Black Americans and the Soviet Union, 1922-1963
  • "Not at all God's white people": McKay and the Negro in red
  • Between Harem and Harlem: Hughes and the ways of the veil
  • Du Bois, Russia, and the "refusal to be 'white,"
  • Black shadows across the Iron Curtain: Robeson's stance between cold war cultures.

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