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Sojourning for freedom : black women, American communism, and the making of black left feminism / Erik S. McDuffie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDuffie, Erik S., 1970-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Political activity--History--20th century.
- African American women.
- African American communists.
- African American feminists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Illuminates a pathbreaking black radical feminist politics forged by black women leftists active in the U.S. Communist Party between its founding in 1919 and its demise in the 1950s.
- Contents:
- Black communist women pioneers, 1919-1930
- Searching for the Soviet promise, fighting for Scottsboro and Harlem's survival, 1930-1935
- Toward a brighter dawn : black women forge the Popular Front, 1935-1940
- Racing against Jim Crow, fascism, colonialism, and the Communist Party, 1940-1946
- "We are sojourners for our rights" : the Cold War, 1946-1956
- Ruptures and continuities, 1956 onward.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613266125
- 9781283266123
- 1283266121
- 9780822394402
- 0822394405
- OCLC:
- 746464507
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