Opposing Jim Crow
Subtitle: African Americans and the Soviet indictment of U.S. racism, 1928 - 1937
By: Meredith L. Roman
Series: Justice and social inquiry; Justice and social inquiry
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780803215528
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Multiculturalism; Government policy; Anti-racism; Civil rights; African Americans; Racism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the birth of a nation; title: American racism on trial and the poster child for Soviet antiracism; title: "This is not bourgeois America": representations of American racial apartheid and Soviet racelessness; title: The Scottsboro campaign: personalizing American racism and speaking antiracism; title: African American architects of Soviet antiracism and the challenge of black and white; title: The promises of Soviet antiracism and the integration of Moscow's International Lenin School; title: Epilogue: Circus and going soft on American racism.