Dunstan - Race Rights and Reform: Global and International History: Race, Rights and Reform

Race, Rights and Reform

Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War

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.

Sarah C. Dunstan is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.

Series Editors

Erez Manela, Harvard University

John McNeill, Georgetown University Aviel Roshwald, Georgetown University

The Global and International History series seeks to highlight and explore the convergences between the new International History and the new World History. Its editors are interested in approaches that mix traditional units of analysis such as civilizations, nations and states with other concepts such as transnationalism, diasporas, and international institutions.

Titles in the Series

Kirwin R. Shaffer , Anarchists of the Caribbean: Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion

Stephen J. Macekura and Erez Manela , The Development Century: A Global History

Amanda Kay McVety , The Rinderpest Campaigns: A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century

Michele L. Louro , Comrades against Imperialism

Antoine Acker , Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil

Christopher R. W. Dietrich , Oil Revolution: Anti-Colonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization

Nathan J. Citino , Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945 1967

Stefan Rinke , Latin America and the First World War

Timothy Nunan , Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan

Michael Goebel , Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism

Stephen J. Macekura , Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century

Race, Rights and Reform

Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War

Sarah C. Dunstan

Queen Mary University of London

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