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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	McDuffie, Erik S., 1970-
Imprint:	Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Description:	xiv, 311 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	African American women -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century. African American communists. African American feminists. African American communists. African American feminists. African American women -- Political activity. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8461031

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ISBN:	9780822350330 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822350335 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822350507 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822350505 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of 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.