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

• Autore: Horne Gerald
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (404 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.48/896073/0092; B
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto non controllato: The; available; biography; dynamic; first; influential; paperback; woman151now
• Classificazione: HU 3535
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Race woman
• ISBN: 0-8147-4457-5; 0-585-43462-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780179003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II