Research Catalog

Title

Essays on race and empire / Nancy Cunard ; edited by Maureen Moynagh.

Author

Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965

Publication

Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, NY : Broadview Press, ©2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Moynagh, Maureen Anne, 1963-

Description

305 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"This edition assembles the major essays on race and imperialism written by Nancy Cunard in the 1930s and 1940s. As a British expatriate living in France, and as a politically engaged poet, editor, publisher, and journalist, Nancy Cunard devoted much of her energy to the cause of racial justice." "This Broadview edition contextualizes Cunard's writings on race in terms of the relations among modernism, gender, and empire. It includes a range of contemporaneous documents that place her essays in dialogue with other European writers and with the work of writers and intellectuals of the African diaspora." --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

Broadview literary texts

Uniform Title

Broadview literary texts

Subject

• Race relations
• Black people
• African Americans
• Imperialism
• Indigenous peoples
• Relations raciales
• Noirs
• Impérialisme
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Ethnische Beziehungen
• Imperialismus
• Schwarze
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Imperialismus
• Rassenbeziehung
• Black People
• Black or African American
• Schwarze

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Nancy Cunard: A Brief Chronology -- Essays on Race and Empire -- Imperial Eyes -- "Harlem Reviewed" -- "Jamaica--the Negro Island" -- The White Man's Duty: An Analysis of the Colonial Question in Light of the Atlantic Charter -- Miscegenation Blues -- Black Man and White Ladyship: An Anniversary -- "The American Moron and the American of Sense--Letters on the Negro" -- The Red and the Black -- "Scottsboro--and Other Scottsboros" -- "A Reactionary Negro Organisation: A Short Review of Dr. DuBois, The Crisis, and the NAACP in 1932" -- Imperial Eyes -- Mary Gaunt, from Alone in West Africa (1912) -- Margery Perham, from West African Passage (1931-1932) -- C.L.R. James, from The Case for West Indian Self-Government (1933) -- Miscegenation Blues -- Albert Edward Wiggam, from "Woman's Place In Race Improvement," The Fruit of the Family Tree (1924) -- W.E.B. DuBois, "The Marrying of Black Folk" (1910) -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases (1892) -- The Red and the Black -- W.E.B. DuBois, "The Class Struggle" (1921) -- Richard Wright, from American Hunger ([1944] 1977) -- Claude McKay, from A Long Way from Home: An Autobiography (1937).

ISBN

• 1551112302
• 9781551112305

LCCN

^^2002416586

OCLC

• 50022747
• SCSB-11512151

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library