Opposing Jim Crow [electronic resource] : African Americans and the Soviet indictment of U.S. racism, 1928 - 1937 / Meredith L. Roman.

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.

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