From Scottsboro to Munich (eBook)
408 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3141-8 (ISBN)
Presenting a portrait of engaged, activist lives in the 1930s, From Scottsboro to Munich follows a global network of individuals and organizations that posed challenges to the racism and colonialism of the era. Susan Pennybacker positions race at the center of the British, imperial, and transatlantic political culture of the 1930s from Jim Crow, to imperial London, to the events leading to the Munich Crisis offering a provocative new understanding of the conflicts, politics, and solidarities of the years leading to World War II. Pennybacker examines the British Scottsboro defense campaign, inaugurated after nine young African Americans were unjustly charged with raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. She explores the visit to Britain of Ada Wright, the mother of two of the defendants. Pennybacker also considers British responses to the Meerut Conspiracy Trial in India, the role that antislavery and refugee politics played in attempts to appease Hitler at Munich, and the work of key figures like Trinidadian George Padmore in opposing Jim Crow and anti-Semitism. Pennybacker uses a wide variety of archival materials drawn from Russian Comintern, Dutch, French, British, and American collections. Literary and biographical sources are complemented by rich photographic images. From Scottsboro to Munich sheds new light on the racial debates of the 1930s, the lives and achievements of committed activists and their supporters, and the political challenges that arose in the postwar years.
Presenting a portrait of engaged, activist lives in the 1930s, From Scottsboro to Munich follows a global network of individuals and organizations that posed challenges to the racism and colonialism of the era. Susan Pennybacker positions race at the center of the British, imperial, and transatlantic political culture of the 1930s--from Jim Crow, to imperial London, to the events leading to the Munich Crisis--offering a provocative new understanding of the conflicts, politics, and solidarities of the years leading to World War II. Pennybacker examines the British Scottsboro defense campaign, inaugurated after nine young African Americans were unjustly charged with raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. She explores the visit to Britain of Ada Wright, the mother of two of the defendants. Pennybacker also considers British responses to the Meerut Conspiracy Trial in India, the role that antislavery and refugee politics played in attempts to appease Hitler at Munich, and the work of key figures like Trinidadian George Padmore in opposing Jim Crow and anti-Semitism. Pennybacker uses a wide variety of archival materials drawn from Russian Comintern, Dutch, French, British, and American collections. Literary and biographical sources are complemented by rich photographic images. From Scottsboro to Munich sheds new light on the racial debates of the 1930s, the lives and achievements of committed activists and their supporters, and the political challenges that arose in the postwar years.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.7.2009 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 27 halftones. |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945 |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| Schlagworte | abolitionism • Abyssinia Crisis • activism • Adolf Hitler • African Americans • Agnes Smedley • Anschluss • Anti-Imperialism • Appeasement • Arthur Koestler • Bertolt Brecht • British Empire • communism • Communist International • Communist Party of Germany • comrade • czechoslovakia • dreyfus affair • Édouard Daladier • Ellen Wilkinson • Emil Ludwig • Ernst vom Rath • George Lansbury • George Padmore • Germans • Haile Selassie • Harry Pollitt • Heinrich Brandler • Heinrich Fraenkel • Heinrich Mann • Henri Barbusse • howard university • imperialism • International Labor Defense • James Maxton • Jarrow March • Jawaharlal Nehru • Jews • Karl Mannheim • Kindertransport • Kristallnacht • Leo Amery • lynching • Moscow trials • Munich Agreement • nancy cunard • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Nazi Germany • Nazi Party • Nazism • Neville Chamberlain • Paul Robeson • Profintern • Racism • Ralph Bunche • Refugee • reichstag fire • Right of asylum • rudolf olden • Siegfried Sassoon • Slavery • Soviet Union • Stalinism • Supporter • Sylvia Pankhurst • THE CHICAGO DEFENDER • Trade Union • W. E. B. Du Bois • Weimar Republic • William Wilberforce |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4008-3141-5 / 1400831415 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4008-3141-8 / 9781400831418 |
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