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Opposing Jim Crow :

(Number (ISBN

0803215525

(Number (ISBN

0803240848

(Number (ISBN

9780803215528

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9780803240841

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Opposing Jim Crow :

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[Book]

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African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Lincoln :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

UNP - Nebraska,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2012.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (319 pages)

Series Title

Justice and social inquiry

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: The Birth of a Nation; 1. American Racism on Trial and thePoster Child for Soviet Antiracism; 2. "This Is Not Bourgeois America":Representations of American RacialApartheid and Soviet Racelessness; 3. The Scottsboro Campaign:Personalizing American Racismand Speaking Antiracism; 4. African American Architects ofSoviet Antiracism and theChallenge of Black and White; 5. The Promises of Soviet Antiracismand the Integration of Moscow'sInternational Lenin School.

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Epilogue: Circus and Going Softon American RacismNotes; Bibliography; Index.

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"Before the Nazis came to power in Germany, Soviet officials labeled the United States the most racist country in the world. Photographs, children's stories, films, newspaper articles, political education campaigns, and court proceedings exposed the hypocrisy of America's racial democracy. In contrast, the Soviets represented the USSR itself as a superior society where racism was absent and identified African Americans as valued allies in resisting an imminent imperialist war against the first workers' state. Meredith L. Roman's Opposing Jim Crow examines the period between 1928 and 1937, when the promotion of antiracism by party and trade union officials in Moscow became a priority policy. Soviet leaders stood to gain considerable propagandistic value at home and abroad by drawing attention to U.S. racism, their actions simultaneously directed attention to the routine violation of human rights that African Americans suffered as citizens of the United States. Soviet policy also challenged the prevailing white supremacist notion that blacks were biologically inferior and thus unworthy of equality with whites. African Americans of various political and socioeconomic backgrounds became indispensable contributors to Soviet antiracism and helped officials in Moscow challenge the United States' claim to be the world's beacon of democracy and freedom."--Project Muse.

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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22573/ctt1ddnz3c

Title

Opposing Jim Crow : African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937.

International Standard Book Number

9780803215528

African Americans-- Civil rights-- United States.

Anti-racism-- Soviet Union.

Multiculturalism-- Soviet Union.

Racism-- Government policy-- Soviet Union.

African Americans-- Civil rights.

Anti-racism.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.

Multiculturalism.

Racism-- Government policy.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination & Race Relations.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- General.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.

Soviet Union.

United States.

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Roman, Meredith L.

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20200822131355.0

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