Title Race, rights and reform : black activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War / Sarah C. Dunstan

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) Series Global and international history Global and international history. Summary Sarah C. Dunstan constructs a narrative of black struggles for rights and citizenship that spans most of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide range of people and movements from France and the United States, the French Caribbean and African colonies. She explores how black scholars and activists grappled with the connections between culture, race and citizenship and access to rights, mapping African American and Francophone black intellectual collaborations from the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to the March on Washington in 1963. Connecting the independent archives of black activist organizations within America and France with those of international institutions such as the League of Nations, the United Nations and the Comintern, Dunstan situates key black intellectuals in a transnational framework. She reveals how questions of race and nation intersected across national and imperial borders and illuminates the ways in which black intellectuals simultaneously constituted and reconfigured notions of Western civilization. Publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 06, 2021) Subject Black people -- Civil rights -- French-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century Black people -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century Black people -- Civil rights French-speaking countries United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108764971 1108764975 1108806570 9781108806572

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