LEADER 04285nam 22006255 450 001 9910136676703321 005 20230810001132.0 010 $a9780674972995 010 $a0674972996 010 $a9780674973015 010 $a0674973011 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674973015 035 $a(CKB)3710000000907440 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4717447 035 $a(DE-B1597)479789 035 $a(OCoLC)984686430 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674973015 035 $a(Perlego)3119830 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000907440 100 $a20170310d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aRace and the Totalitarian Century $eGeopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination /$fVaughn Rasberry, Maurice E. Stucke 210 1$aCambridge, MA : $cHarvard University Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (497 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9780674971080 311 08$a0674971086 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart One: Race and the Totalitarian Century -- $t1. The Figure of the Negro Soldier -- $t2. Our Totalitarian Critics: Desegregation, Decolonization, and the Cold War -- $t3. The Twilight of Empire: The Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 and the Black Public Sphere -- $tPart Two: How to Build Socialist Modernity in the Third World -- $t4. The Right to Fail: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Communist Hypothesis -- $t5. From Nkrumah?s Ghana to Nasser?s Egypt: Shirley Graham as Partisan -- $t6. Bandung or Barbarism: Richard Wright on Terror in Freedom -- $tConclusion: Memory and Paranoia -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aFew concepts evoke the twentieth century?s record of war, genocide, repression, and extremism more powerfully than the idea of totalitarianism. Today, studies of the subject are usually confined to discussions of Europe?s collapse in World War II or to comparisons between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. In Race and the Totalitarian Century, Vaughn Rasberry parts ways with both proponents and detractors of these normative conceptions in order to tell the strikingly different story of how black American writers manipulated the geopolitical rhetoric of their time. During World War II and the Cold War, the United States government conscripted African Americans into the fight against Nazism and Stalinism. An array of black writers, however, deflected the appeals of liberalism and its antitotalitarian propaganda in the service of decolonization. Richard Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham, C. L. R. James, John A. Williams, and others remained skeptical that totalitarian servitude and democratic liberty stood in stark opposition. Their skepticism allowed them to formulate an independent perspective that reimagined the antifascist, anticommunist narrative through the lens of racial injustice, with the United States as a tyrannical force in the Third World but also as an ironic agent of Asian and African independence. Bringing a new interpretation to events such as the Bandung Conference of 1955 and the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, Rasberry?s bird?s-eye view of black culture and politics offers an alternative history of the totalitarian century. 606 $aAfrican American authors$xPolitical activity$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government$xPhilosophy 606 $aTotalitarianism and literature 606 $aGeopolitics in literature 606 $aRacism$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAfrican American authors$xPolitical activity$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aTotalitarianism and literature. 615 0$aGeopolitics in literature. 615 0$aRacism$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 676 $a323.1196/073 700 $aRasberry$b Vaughn.$01246653 701 $aStucke$b Maurice E$0781075 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136676703321 996 $aRace and the Totalitarian Century$92890405 997 $aUNINA