Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War

Dunstan, S. C. (2021) Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War. Series: Global and International History. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781108732031 (doi: 10.1017/9781108764971)

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:Books
Status:Published
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Dunstan, Dr Sarah
Authors: Dunstan, S. C.
College/School:College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > History
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108732031
Published Online:01 March 2021
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