The color curtain : a report on the Bandung Conference / by Richard Wright ; foreword by Gunnar Myrdal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.

Contributor:

Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987, writer of foreword.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian-African Conference--(1st : 1955 : Bandung, Indonesia).

Asian-African Conference.

Afro-Asian politics--Congresses.

Afro-Asian politics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

221 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cleveland : The World Publishing Company, 1956.

Contents:

Bandung: Beyond Left and Right

Race and Religion at Bandung

Communism at Bandung

Racial Shame at Bandung

The Western World at Bandung.

Notes:

"An outstanding novelist and reporter tells of the first meeting in history of the representatives of 65% of the human race - a billion and a half black, brown, and yellow people seeking answers to questions which can affect the entire human race."--Dustjacket.

"This book has been set in Linotype Baskerville type ..."

"Typography and design are by Samuel Cauman."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is "Second Printing".

OCLC:

178950