Race, rights and reform : Black activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War / Sarah C. Dunstan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunstan, Sarah C., author.

Series:

Global and international history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Civil rights--French-speaking countries--History--20th century.

Black people.

Black people--Civil rights--United States--History--20th century.

Black people--Civil rights.

History.

United States.

French-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Sarah C. Dunstan constructs a narrative of black struggles for rights and citizenship that spans most of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide range of people and movements from France and the United States, the French Caribbean and African colonies. She explores how black scholars and activists grappled with the connections between culture, race and citizenship and access to rights, mapping African American and Francophone black intellectual collaborations from the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to the March on Washington in 1963. Connecting the independent archives of black activist organizations within America and France with those of international institutions such as the League of Nations, the United Nations and the Comintern, Dunstan situates key black intellectuals in a transnational framework. She reveals how questions of race and nation intersected across national and imperial borders and illuminates the ways in which black intellectuals simultaneously constituted and reconfigured notions of Western civilization.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2021).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781108764971

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.