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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780179003321

Autore

Horne Gerald

Titolo

Race woman [[electronic resource] ] : the lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois / / Gerald Horne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8147-4457-5

0-585-43462-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 p.)

Classificazione

HU 3535

Disciplina

305.48/896073/0092

B

Soggetti

African American women

African Americans

African American women political activists

African Americans - Politics and government - 20th century

African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century

African American authors

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Perspectives; 1 Family; 2 On Her Journey Now; 3 The Middle of Her Journey; 4 Crossroads; 5 Shirley Graham Du Bois; 6 Home; 7 On the Road Again; 8 Mother, Africa; 9 Detour; 10 Black, to the Left; 11 The End of Her Journey; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

One of the most intriguing activists and artists of the twentieth century, Shirley Graham Du Bois also remains one of the least studied and understood. In Race Woman , Gerald Horne draws a revealing portrait of this controversial figure who championed the civil rights movement in America, the liberation struggles in Africa and the socialist struggles in Maoist China. Through careful analysis and use of personal correspondence, interviews, and previously unexamined documents, Horne explores her work as a Harlem Renaissance playwright, biographer, composer, teacher, novelist, Left political acti