Race and the totalitarian century : geopolitics in the Black literary imagination / Vaughn Rasberry.
Race and the totalitarian century : geopolitics in the Black literary imagination / Vaughn Rasberry.
Race and the totalitarian century : geopolitics in the Black literary imagination / Vaughn Rasberry.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2016]
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G 2017/4391
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English
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488 pages ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part One. Race and the totalitarian century -- The figure of the Negro soldier: racial democracy and world war -- Our totalitarian critics: desegregation, decolonization, and the Cold War -- In the twilight of empire: the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 and the Black public sphere -- Part Two. How to buil...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
[2016]
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Summary
Few concepts evoke the twentieth century's record of total war, genocide, repression, and extremism more powerfully than the idea of totalitarianism: the ideological core of narratives of World War II and the Cold War. Yet the totalitarian experience, this book contends, shaped and was shaped by narratives of the rise and fall of the world color li...
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Race and the totalitarian century : geopolitics in the Black literary imagination / Vaughn Rasberry.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-467) and index.
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G 2017/4391
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74VKVEK37PWd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVEK37PWd
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0674971086
9780674971080 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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323.1196073
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991024129894902626
