LEADER 04133nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910970597003321 005 20251117084102.0 010 $a1-280-68750-9 010 $a9786613664440 010 $a0-8032-4084-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000208164 035 $a(EBL)934249 035 $a(OCoLC)795120500 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000692060 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11403726 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000692060 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10637027 035 $a(PQKB)10139780 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC934249 035 $a(OCoLC)796214780 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16079 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL934249 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10571298 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL366444 035 $a(BIP)46372226 035 $a(BIP)36889729 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000208164 100 $a20111214d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOpposing Jim Crow $eAfrican Americans and the Soviet indictment of U.S. racism, 1928 - 1937 /$fMeredith L. Roman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLincoln $cUniversity of Nebraska Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (319 p.) 225 1 $aJustice and social inquiry 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8032-1552-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aBefore the Nazis came to power in Germany, Soviet officials labeled the United States the most racist country in the world. Photographs, children s stories, films, newspaper articles, political education campaigns, and court proceedings exposed the hypocrisy of America s racial democracy. In contrast, the Soviets represented the USSR itself as a superior society where racism was absent and identified African Americans as valued allies in resisting an imminent imperialist war against the first workers state. Meredith L. Roman s "Opposing Jim Crow" examines the period between 1928 and 1937, when the promotion of antiracism by party and trade union officials in Moscow became a priority policy. Soviet leaders stood to gain considerable propagandistic value at home and abroad by drawing attention to U.S. racism, their actions simultaneously directed attention to the routine violation of human rights that African Americans suffered as citizens of the United States. Soviet policy also challenged the prevailing white supremacist notion that blacks were biologically inferior and thus unworthy of equality with whites. African Americans of various political and socioeconomic backgrounds became indispensable contributors to Soviet antiracism and helped officials in Moscow challenge the United States claim to be the world s beacon of democracy and freedom." 410 0$aJustice and social inquiry. 606 $aAnti-racism$zSoviet Union 606 $aRacism$xGovernment policy$zSoviet Union 606 $aMulticulturalism$zSoviet Union 606 $aRacism$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights 606 $aAfrican Americans$zSoviet Union 615 0$aAnti-racism 615 0$aRacism$xGovernment policy 615 0$aMulticulturalism 615 0$aRacism 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights. 615 0$aAfrican Americans 676 $a305.800947 700 $aRoman$b Meredith L$g(Meredith Lynn)$01864118 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970597003321 996 $aOpposing Jim Crow$94470845 997 $aUNINA