Sojourning for freedom : Black women, American communism, and the making of Black left feminism / Erik S. McDuffie

Author:: McDuffie, Erik S., 1970-
Published:: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Physical Description:: xiv, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents:

Black communist women pioneers, 1919-1930 -- Searching for the Soviet promise, fighting for Scottsboro and Harlem's survival, 1930-1935 -- Toward a brighter dawn : black women forge the Popular Front, 1935-1940 -- Racing against Jim Crow, fascism, colonialism, and the Communist Party, 1940-1946 -- "We are sojourners for our rights" : the Cold War, 1946-1956 -- Ruptures and continuities, 1956 onward.

Subject(s):

African American women—Political activity—History—20th century
African American communists
African American feminists

ISBN:

9780822350330 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822350335 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822350507 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822350505 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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