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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2021
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781108764971

Book description

Sarah C. Dunstan constructs a narrative of black struggles for rights and citizenship that spans most of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide range of people and movements from France and the United States, the French Caribbean and African colonies. She explores how black scholars and activists grappled with the connections between culture, race and citizenship and access to rights, mapping African American and Francophone black intellectual collaborations from the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to the March on Washington in 1963. Connecting the independent archives of black activist organizations within America and France with those of international institutions such as the League of Nations, the United Nations and the Comintern, Dunstan situates key black intellectuals in a transnational framework. She reveals how questions of race and nation intersected across national and imperial borders and illuminates the ways in which black intellectuals simultaneously constituted and reconfigured notions of Western civilization.

Awards

Winner, 2022 J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical Association

Reviews

'Dunstan persuasively argues that black francophone thinkers and their African American counterparts drew upon the democratic ideals of the French and American Republics to fight racism, and in the process influenced each other. Race, Rights and Reform is well-written, deeply researched, and thoughtfully framed.'

Alice L. Conklin - Ohio State University

'Fascinating and deeply engaging. Sarah C. Dunstan's protagonists are intellectuals and reformers of a multilingual Black Atlantic, moving across three continents and four decades, exploring both the particularities of their blackness and the generalities of the human condition as refracted through the lenses of modernism, communism and existentialism. A bracing exploration of a de-racialized and de-colonized world struggling to be born.'

Gary Gerstle - University of Cambridge

'A truly trans-Atlantic history of twentieth-century Black activism, this timely book enriches and deprovincializes what still too often are nationally focused historiographies of race, racism, and empire. Whoever wants a deeper historical understanding of the global resonance of the Black Lives Matter movement should read this book.'

Michael Goebel - Graduate Institute Geneva

'This sophisticated, impeccably researched treatment is great for general collections … Recommended.'

R. C. Cottrell Source: Choice Magazine

'Intellectually stimulating as well as illuminating, Sarah Dunstan’s Race, Rights and Reform is a profound piece that expands the historical literature by marrying discussions of citizenship, rights, and colonialism as they pertain to Black rearticulations of the concept of modernity.'

Dhakir Abdullah Source: H-Net

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