Book contents
- Race, Rights and Reform
- Global and International History
- Race, Rights and Reform
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Terminology and Language
- Introduction
- 1 Black Is a Country, n’est-ce pas? Race, Rights and Nation in the Wilsonian Moment
- 2 Anti-imperial Comrades: Black Radicalism and the Communist Possibility
- 3 La vogue nègre: Racial Renaissance at the Intersection of Republic, Empire and Democracy
- 4 Civilization’s Gone to Hell? Revolutionary Poetry, Humanism and the Crisis of Sovereignty
- 5 Give Me Liberty! Black Intellectual Struggles against Fascism in the Fight for Democracy
- 6 “A New Fascism, the American Brand”: Anti-communism, Anti-imperialism and the Struggle for the West
- 7 “The Sword of Damocles”: Présence Africaine and Decolonization in the Face of the Cold War
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2021
- Race, Rights and Reform
- Global and International History
- Race, Rights and Reform
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Terminology and Language
- Introduction
- 1 Black Is a Country, n’est-ce pas? Race, Rights and Nation in the Wilsonian Moment
- 2 Anti-imperial Comrades: Black Radicalism and the Communist Possibility
- 3 La vogue nègre: Racial Renaissance at the Intersection of Republic, Empire and Democracy
- 4 Civilization’s Gone to Hell? Revolutionary Poetry, Humanism and the Crisis of Sovereignty
- 5 Give Me Liberty! Black Intellectual Struggles against Fascism in the Fight for Democracy
- 6 “A New Fascism, the American Brand”: Anti-communism, Anti-imperialism and the Struggle for the West
- 7 “The Sword of Damocles”: Présence Africaine and Decolonization in the Face of the Cold War
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This introduction opens with an analysis of the way that black intellectuals from throughout the French Empire and the United States understood their relationship to Western civilization more broadly and the Republics of France and America in particular. It positions this book in the heart of contemporary historiographical debates about the relationship between anti-racist and anti-colonial activism and claims to citizenship and human rights. In so doing it brings into conversation the two disparate historiographies of rights and race in the United States and the French Empire and makes an argument for breaking down the division between the “interwar” and “postwar” periods when thinking about these histories.
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- Race, Rights and ReformBlack Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War, pp. 1 - 13Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021