Sojourning for Freedom Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism

Name: Sojourning for Freedom Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
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ISBN: 9780822350507

ISBN-10: 0822350505

ISBN-13: 9780822350507

Edition: 2011

Authors: Erik S. McDuffie

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Sojourning for Freedomportrays pioneering black women activists from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, focusing on their participation in the U.S. Communist Party (CPUSA) between 1919 and 1956. Erik S. McDuffie considers how women from diverse locales and backgrounds became radicalized, joined the CPUSA, and advocated a path-breaking politics committed to black liberation, women#x19;s rights, decolonization, economic justice, peace, and international solidarity. McDuffie explores the lives of black left feminists including the bohemian world traveler Louise Thompson Patterson, who wrote about the #x1C;triple exploitation#x1D; of race, gender, and class; Esther Cooper Jackson,…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 6/27/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



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



ï¿½We Are Sojourners for Our Rightsï¿½: The Cold War, 1946-1956



Ruptures and Continuities, 1956 Onward


Notes


Bibliography


Index