Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108486972)

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.

Author: Sarah C. Dunstan
ISBN-10: 1108486975
ISBN-13: 9781108486972
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/18/2021
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2022