Sojourning for freedom
Subtitle: black women, American communism, and the making of black left feminism
By: Erik S. McDuffie
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780822350330; 9780822350507
Subjects: African American feminists; History; African American women; Political activity; African American communists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Black communist women pioneers, 1919-1930; title: Searching for the Soviet promise, fighting for Scottsboro and Harlem's survival, 1930-1935; title: Toward a brighter dawn : black women forge the Popular Front, 1935-1940; title: Racing against Jim Crow, fascism, colonialism, and the Communist Party, 1940-1946; title: "We are sojourners for our rights" : the Cold War, 1946-1956; title: Ruptures and continuities, 1956 onward.