Race, Rights and Reform 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
Epilogue
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 epilogue briefly comments on the legacy of the men and women who form the focus of the study. Drawing upon the arguments made in the preceding chapters, it argues that the diverse thought of black thinkers and activists from the French Empire and United States has indelibly shaped our notions of race, citizenship and republicanism in America, France and the Western world. It reiterates the centrality of the belief that the guarantee of rights in the face of difference would emanate from the sovereign power of the republican nation-state rather than from any international institutions. This was the case even where the struggle against racism and imperialism was understood in global terms.
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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. 279 - 283Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021