Sojourning for freedom : black women, American communism, and the making of black left feminism
Erik S. McDuffie (Creator)
Illuminates a pathbreaking black radical feminist politics forged by black women leftists active in the U.S. Communist Party between its founding in 1919 and its demise in the 1950s.
xiv, 311 p. : ill.
9780822350507, 0822350505
1040379401
Acknowledgments ixAbbreviations xiiiIntroduction 11. Black Communist Women Pioneers, 1919–1930 252. Searching for the Soviet Promise, Fighting for Scottsboro and Harlem's Survival, 1930–1935 583. Toward a Brighter Dawn: Black Women Forge the Popular Front, 1935–1940 914. Racing against Jim Crow, Fascism, Colonialism, and the Communist Party, 1940–1946 1265. "We Are Sojourners for Our Rights": The Cold War, 1946–1956 1606. Ruptures and Continuities, 1956 Onward 193Notes 221Bibliography 261Index 297
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