ISBN:
1496802438
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9781496802439
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 229 pages)
Series Statement:
Race, rhetoric, and media series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Zeigler, James Red scare racism and Cold War Black radicalism
DDC:
305.800973/0904
Keywords:
Racism Political aspects
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History
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African Americans Politics and government 20th century
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Anti-communist movements History 20th century
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African Americans ; Politics and government
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Anti-communist movements
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Politics and government
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Race relations
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Racism ; Political aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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History
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United States Race relations 20th century
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History
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United States Politics and government 1945-1989
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United States
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Electronic books.
Abstract:
Describing the ways anticommunism impaired the struggle for civil rights, James Zeigler reconstructs how Red Scare rhetoric during the Cold War assisted the black freedom struggle's demands for equal rights but labelled as 'un-American' calls for reparations. To track the power of this volatile discourse, Zeigler investigates how radical black artists and intellectuals managed to answer anticommunism with critiques of Cold War culture
Abstract:
Un-American schooling: anticommunist discourse and Martin Luther King Jr. -- Essaying to be an exile: Richard Wright following the God that failed -- Writing Congress: the appeal of C.L.R. James's American studies -- Black is red all over again: President Obama's father figure Frank Marshall Davis.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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