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Opposing Jim Crow
Meredith L. Roman
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Description for Opposing Jim Crow
Before the Nazis came to power in Germany, Soviet officials labelled the United States the most racist country in the world. Series: Justice and Social Inquiry. Num Pages: 360 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Before the Nazis came to power in Germany, Soviet officials 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 ... Read more
Before the Nazis came to power in Germany, Soviet officials 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Justice and Social Inquiry
Number of Pages
320
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803215528
SKU
V9780803215528
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About Meredith L. Roman
Meredith L. Roman is an assistant professor of history at SUNY–Brockport. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, International Labor and Working-Class History, Race & Class, and Critique: A Journal of Socialist Theory.
Reviews for Opposing Jim Crow
“Roman’s study adds a dimension most U.S. historians can only envy. . . . A fuller account is unlikely to appear, and the logic of Opposing Jim Crow could not easily be impeached.”—James G. Ryan, Journal of American History "A rich addition to the literature on Russian-American relations."—W. B. Whisenhunt, Choice “Breaks new theoretical ground. . . . ... Read more