Anti-Imperialist Modernism : Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War / Benjamin Balthaser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balthaser, Benjamin, author.

Series:

Class, culture

Class : Culture

Language:

English

Genre:

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Anti-Imperialist Modernism excavates how U.S. cross-border, multi-ethnic anti-imperialist movements at mid-century shaped what we understand as cultural modernism and the historical period of the Great Depression. The book demonstrates how U.S. multiethnic cultural movements, located in political parties, small journals, labor unions, and struggles for racial liberation, helped construct a common sense of international solidarity that critiqued ideas of nationalism and essentialized racial identity. The book thus moves beyond accounts that have tended to view the prewar "Popular Front" through tropes of national belonging or an abandonment of the cosmopolitanism of previous decades. Impressive archival research brings to light the ways in which a transnational vision of modernism and modernity was fashioned through anticolonial networks of North/South solidarity.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2020: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 5218

ISBN:

9780472902552

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.7381040

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access