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Race and the Totalitarian Century - Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination (Hardcover)
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Race and the Totalitarian Century - Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination (Hardcover)
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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 Germany. In Race and
the Totalitarian Century, Vaughn Rasberry parts ways with both
proponents and detractors of these normative conceptions in order
to tell the strikingly different story of how black American
writers manipulated the geopolitical rhetoric of their time. During
World War II and the Cold War, the United States government
conscripted African Americans into the fight against Nazism and
Stalinism. An array of black writers, however, deflected the
appeals of liberalism and its antitotalitarian propaganda in the
service of decolonization. Richard Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois,
Shirley Graham, C. L. R. James, John A. Williams, and others
remained skeptical that totalitarian servitude and democratic
liberty stood in stark opposition. Their skepticism allowed them to
formulate an independent perspective that reimagined the
antifascist, anticommunist narrative through the lens of racial
injustice, with the United States as a tyrannical force in the
Third World but also as an ironic agent of Asian and African
independence. Bringing a new interpretation to events such as the
Bandung Conference of 1955 and the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956,
Rasberry's bird's-eye view of black culture and politics offers an
alternative history of the totalitarian century.
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