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Opposing Jim Crow

Roman, Meredith L.

Opposing Jim Crow African Americans and the Soviet indictment of U.S. racism, 1928 - 1937 / [electronic resource] : Meredith L. Roman. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2012, 2012. - 1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages ) - Justice and social inquiry . - Justice and social inquiry. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-292) and index.

Introduction: 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.

9780803240841 0803240848


African Americans--Soviet Union.
African Americans--Civil rights--United States.
Racism--United States.
Multiculturalism--Soviet Union.
Racism--Government policy--Soviet Union.
Anti-racism--Soviet Union.


Electronic books.

DK268.4 / .R66 2012

305.800947