Bourgeois Radicals

by Carol Anderson

Book Overview

Bourgeois Radicals explores the NAACP's key role in the liberation of Africans and Asians across the globe even as it fought Jim Crow on the home front during the long civil rights movement. For NAACP's leaders, the way to create a stable international system, stave off communism in Africa and Asia, and prevent capitalist exploitation was to embed human rights, with its economic and cultural protections, in the transformation of colonies into nations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521155738
• ISBN13: 9780521155731
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"