Introduction: The Demand for a New Kind of Person: Black Americans and the Soviet Union, 1922–1963

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Demand for a New Kind of Person: Black Americans and the Soviet Union, 1922–1963 1
5. 1 ‘‘Not at All God’s White People’’: McKay and the Negro in Red 25
6. 2 Between Harem and Harlem: Hughes and the Ways of the Veil 86
7. 3 Du Bois, Russia, and the ‘‘Refusal to Be ‘White,’ ’’ 149
8. 4 Black Shadows across the Iron Curtain: Robeson’s Stance between Cold War Cultures 202
9. Epilogue: The Only Television Hostess Who Doesn’t Turn Red 253
10. Notes 263
11. Selected Bibliography 321
12. Index 333