Re-examines the relations between African Americans and the Soviet Union from a more transnational perspective and shows how these relations were crucial in the formation of Black modernism
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Re-examines the relations between African Americans and the Soviet Union from a more transnational perspective and shows how these relations were crucial in the formation of Black modernism
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-331) and index
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CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Demand for a New Kind of Person:Black Americans and the Soviet Union, 1922-1963; 1 ''Not at All God's White People'': McKay and the Negro in Red; 2 Between Harem and Harlem: Hughes and the Ways of the Veil; 3 Du Bois, Russia, and the ''Refusal to Be 'White,' ''; 4 Black Shadows across the Iron Curtain: Robeson's Stancebetween Cold War Cultures; Epilogue: The Only Television Hostess Who Doesn't Turn Red; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index