Go offline with the Player FM app!
Du Bois on Stalin’s U.S.S.R.
Manage episode 198342686 series 20984
What accounts for the allegiance W. E. B. Du Bois professed to Stalin’s U.S.S.R.? What did the influential African American thinker and writer believe had happened to white supremacy and racial prejudice in the Soviet Union? According to Vaughn Rasberry, Du Bois believed that emerging communist nations like the U.S.S.R. had the right to experiment, and to fail. (Encore presentation.)
Vaughn Rasberry, Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination Harvard University Press, 2016
The post Du Bois on Stalin’s U.S.S.R. appeared first on KPFA.
1083 episodes
Manage episode 198342686 series 20984
What accounts for the allegiance W. E. B. Du Bois professed to Stalin’s U.S.S.R.? What did the influential African American thinker and writer believe had happened to white supremacy and racial prejudice in the Soviet Union? According to Vaughn Rasberry, Du Bois believed that emerging communist nations like the U.S.S.R. had the right to experiment, and to fail. (Encore presentation.)
Vaughn Rasberry, Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination Harvard University Press, 2016
The post Du Bois on Stalin’s U.S.S.R. appeared first on KPFA.
1083 episodes
All episodes
×Welcome to Player FM!
Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.