Kate A Baldwin

Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain

Reading Encounters Between Black and Red, 1922-1963

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Produktbeschreibung

"In "Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain," Kate A. Baldwin has presented the hitherto ignored Soviet response to African American intellectuals and cultural workers. This is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand the intellectual and political range of African America in the twentieth century."--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of "A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present "

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780822329763
• ISBN-10: 082232976X
• Artikelnr.: 21840577

Autorenporträt

Kate A. Baldwin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Demand for a New Kind of Person: Black Americans and the
Soviet Union, 1922-1963
1. “Not at All God’s White People”: McKay and the Negro in Red
2. Between Harlem and Harlem: Hughes and the Ways of the Veil
3. Du Bois, Russia, and the “Refusal to Be ‘White’”
4. Black Shadows across the Iron Curtain: Robeson’s Stance between Cold War
Cultures
Epilogue: The Only Television Hostess Who Doesn’t Turn Red
Notes
Bibliography
Index