Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922–1963 (New Americanists)
“A blockbuster study of the Soviet Union’s significance for African American literary and cultural self-fashioning in the twentieth century, researched with an unusually daunting prodigiousness and conceived with a truly geopolitical theoretical intelligence.  In attending to questions of travel, of political identities-in-formation, and of subjectivity’s ever-changing subject,Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtainlocates a dialectic of displacement in which an imaginary and actual elsewhere—in this case none other than post-revolutionary Russia—furnishes a space to rearticulate crucial aspects of social and cultural life at home.”—Eric Lott, author ofLove and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class