Opposing Jim Crow

Opposing Jim Crow
Author :
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 318
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781496216663
ISBN-13 : 1496216660
Rating : 4/5 (660 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Opposing Jim Crow by : Meredith L. Roman

Download or read book Opposing Jim Crow written by Meredith L. Roman and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Nazis came to power in Germany, Soviet officials had already 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. Although 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 the Soviet antiracism campaign and helped officials in Moscow challenge the United States’ claim to be the world’s beacon of democracy and freedom.


Opposing Jim Crow Related Books

Opposing Jim Crow
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Meredith L. Roman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-01 - Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Before the Nazis came to power in Germany, Soviet officials had already labeled the United States the most racist country in the world. Photographs, children’
Journalism and Jim Crow
Language: en
Pages: 534
Authors: Kathy Roberts Forde
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-14 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Winner of the American Historical Association’s 2022 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize. White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and pr
Knocking Down Barriers
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Truman Kella Gibson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09-07 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Winner, 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award Certificate of Excellence Recipient, 2007 Hyde Park Historical Society Paul Cornell Award Knocking Dow
Worse Than Slavery
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: David M. Oshinsky
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-04-22 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from em
Stony the Road
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-07 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history—the spot