{"product_id":"beyond-the-color-line-and-the-iron-curtain-9780822329909","title":"Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors - and on twentieth-century American debates about race, this book remaps black modernism, that reveals the importance of the Soviet experience in the formation of a black transnationalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A blockbuster study of the Soviet Union’s significance for African American literary and cultural self-fashioning in the twentieth century, researched with an unusually daunting prodigiousness and conceived with a truly geopolitical theoretical intelligence. In attending to questions of travel, of political identities-in-formation, and of subjectivity’s ever-changing subject, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e locates a dialectic of displacement in which an imaginary and actual elsewhere—in this case none other than post-revolutionary Russia—furnishes a space to rearticulate crucial aspects of social and cultural life at home.”—Eric Lott, author of \u003ci\u003eLove and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A significant book that introduces the Soviet Union to the ‘Black Atlantic’ model of modernism. By examining the works of writers such as Du Bois, McKay, Hughes, and Robeson, the author explains the impact of the Soviet Union on African Americans. This kind of analysis is new—and vital—to literary studies.”—Gerald Horne, author of \u003ci\u003eClass Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e, Kate A. Baldwin has presented the hitherto ignored Soviet response to African American intellectuals and cultural workers. This is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand the intellectual and political range of African America in the twentieth century.”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of \u003ci\u003eA Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Demand for a New Kind of Person: Black Americans and the Soviet Union, 1922-1963 \u003cbr\u003e 1. “Not at All God’s White People”: McKay and the Negro in Red \u003cbr\u003e 2. Between Harlem and Harlem: Hughes and the Ways of the Veil \u003cbr\u003e 3. Du Bois, Russia, and the “Refusal to Be ‘White’” \u003cbr\u003e 4. Black Shadows across the Iron Curtain: Robeson’s Stance between Cold War Cultures \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Only Television Hostess Who Doesn’t Turn Red \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406031069527,"sku":"9780822329909","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822329909.jpg?v=1730494305","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-the-color-line-and-the-iron-curtain-9780822329909","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}