Black and Red: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 1944-1963 - Couverture souple

Horne, Gerald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0887060889 ISBN 13 : 9780887060885

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1985

Synopsis

Many historians have seen a radical shift in W.E.B. Du Bois' political activities in his later years. Following World War II, the evolution of his political perspective led to his ouster from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, where he had worked for years, and the Justice Department's indictment of him for failure to register as a foreign agent. In this extensively researched study, Gerald Horne shows that Du Bois' later activities were the culmination of his lifelong concerns, which Du Bois resolutely followed despite the threats of Cold War McCarthyism. In investigating Du Bois' last 20 years, Horne shows how the confluence of Cold War anticommunism and attempts to discredit the civil rights and anticolonial movements influenced the evaluation of Du Bois' activity. The recently opened papers of W.E.B. Du Bois and previously unexamined papers of the NAACP are among the new sources Horne examined for his study.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Gerald Horne is National Director of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, a Revson Fellow at Columbia University, and on leave from the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. A graduate of Princeton, he also holds a JD degree from Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Columbia. A long-time resident of Harlem, Dr. Horne is also a national leader of the anti-apartheid movement.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0887060889
• ISBN 13: 9780887060885
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 472
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