Race and the Totalitarian Century : : Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination / / Vaughn Rasberry.
Few concepts evoke the twentieth century’s record of war, genocide, repression, and extremism more powerfully than the idea of totalitarianism. Today, studies of the subject are usually confined to discussions of Europe’s collapse in World War II or to comparisons between the Soviet Union and Nazi G...
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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: Race and the Totalitarian Century
- 1. The Figure of the Negro Soldier
- 2. Our Totalitarian Critics: Desegregation, Decolonization, and the Cold War
- 3. The Twilight of Empire: The Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 and the Black Public Sphere
- Part Two: How to Build Socialist Modernity in the Third World
- 4. The Right to Fail: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Communist Hypothesis
- 5. From Nkrumah’s Ghana to Nasser’s Egypt: Shirley Graham as Partisan
- 6. Bandung or Barbarism: Richard Wright on Terror in Freedom
- Conclusion: Memory and Paranoia
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index