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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461801003321

Autore

Roman Meredith L (Meredith Lynn)

Titolo

Opposing Jim Crow [[electronic resource] ] : African Americans and the Soviet indictment of U.S. racism, 1928 - 1937 / / Meredith L. Roman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-68750-9

9786613664440

0-8032-4084-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Justice and social inquiry

Disciplina

305.800947

Soggetti

Anti-racism - Soviet Union

Racism - Government policy - Soviet Union

Multiculturalism - Soviet Union

Racism - United States

African Americans - Civil rights

African Americans - Soviet Union

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the birth of a nation -- American racism on trial and the poster child for Soviet antiracism -- "This is not bourgeois America": representations of American racial apartheid and Soviet racelessness -- The Scottsboro campaign: personalizing American racism and speaking antiracism -- African American architects of Soviet antiracism and the challenge of black and white -- The promises of Soviet antiracism and the integration of Moscow's International Lenin School -- Epilogue: Circus and going soft on American racism.