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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815050403321

Autore

Williams Daniel G.

Titolo

Black skin, blue books : African Americans and Wales, 1845-1945 / / Daniel G. Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-299-20144-X

0-7083-2532-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Collana

Writing Wales in English

CREW series of Critical and Scholarly Studies

Disciplina

303.482730429

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945

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

General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Introduction; Black Skin, Blue Books: Frederick Douglass, Abolitionism and Victorian Wales; 'In the Wide Margin': Modernism and Ethnic Renaissance in Harlem and Wales; 'They feel me a part of that land': Paul Robeson, Race and the Making of Modern Wales; The Invisible Man's Welsh Routes: Ralph Ellison in Wartime Wales; Conclusion: 1945; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a ground breaking comparative study of the fascinating connections between African Americans and the Welsh, beginning in the era of slavery and concluding with the experiences of African American GIs in wartime Wales.