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Beyond the color line and the Iron Curtain : reading encounters between Black and Red, 1922-1963 / Kate A. Baldwin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baldwin, Kate A.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- New Americanists.
- New Americanists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African American intellectuals--Travel--Soviet Union.
- African American intellectuals.
- African American authors--Political and social views.
- African American authors.
- African American arts--20th century.
- African American arts.
- Communism--United States.
- Communism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-331) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613063328
- 9781283063326
- 1283063328
- 9780822383833
- 0822383837
- OCLC:
- 245537921
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