The Color of Fascism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Color of Fascism write by Gerald Horne. This book was released on 2009-09. The Color of Fascism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis—arguably the “brains” behind U.S. fascism—was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white? Born in Atlanta in 1893, Dennis began life as a highly touted African American child preacher, touring nationally and arousing audiences with his dark-skinned mother as his escort. However, at some point between leaving prep school and entering Harvard University, he chose to abandon his family and his former life as an African American in order to pass for white. Dennis went on to work for the State Department and on Wall Street, and ultimately became the public face of U.S. fascism, meeting with Mussolini and other fascist leaders in Europe. He underwent trial for sedition during World War II, almost landing in prison, and ultimately became a Cold War critic before dying in obscurity in 1977. Based on extensive archival research, The Color of Fascism blends biography, social history, and critical race theory to illuminate the fascinating life of this complex and enigmatic man. Gerald Horne links passing and fascism, the two main poles of Dennis's life, suggesting that Dennis’s anger with the U.S. as a result of his upbringing in Jim Crow Georgia led him to alliances with the antagonists of the U.S. and that his personal isolation which resulted in his decision to pass dovetailed with his ultimate isolationism. Dennis’s life is a lasting testament to the resilience of right-wing thought in the U.S. The first full-scale biographical portrait of this intriguing figure, The Color of Fascism also links the strange career of a prominent American who chose to pass.
Black Fascisms
Black Fascisms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Fascisms write by Mark Christian Thompson. This book was released on 2007. Black Fascisms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this provocative new book, Mark Christian Thompson addresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. Thompson surveys the work and thought of several authors and asserts that their sometimes positive reaction to generic European fascism, and its transformation into black fascism, is crucial to any understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture. The book considers the high regard that "Back to Africa" advocate Marcus Garvey expressed for fascist dictators and explores the common ground he shared with George Schuyler and Claude McKay, writers with whom Garvey is generally thought to be at odds. Thompson reveals how fascism informed a rejection of Marxism by McKay--as well as by Arna Bontemps, whose Drums at Dusk depicts communism as antithetical to any black revolution. A similarly authoritarian stance is examined in the work of Zora Neale Hurston, where the striving for a fascist sovereignty presents itself as highly critical of Nazism while nonetheless sharing many of its tenets. The book concludes with an investigation of Richard Wright's The Outsider and its murderous protagonist, Cross Damon, who articulates fascist drives already present, if latent, in Native Son's Bigger Thomas. Unencumbered by the historical or biblical references of the earlier work, Damon personifies the essence of black fascism. Taking on a subject generally ignored or denied in African American cultural and literary studies, Black Fascisms seeks not only to question the prominence of the Left in the political thought of a generation of writers but to change how we view African American literature in general. Encompassing political theory, cultural studies, critical theory, and historicism, the book will challenge readers in numerous fields, providing a new model for thinking about the political and transnational in African American culture and shedding new light on our understanding of fascism between the wars.
Race in Post-Fascist Italy
Race in Post-Fascist Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race in Post-Fascist Italy write by Silvana Patriarca. This book was released on 2022-02-03. Race in Post-Fascist Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the untold stories of biracial children born to Italian women and Black Allied soldiers in the aftermath of World War Two.
The Coming American Fascism
The Coming American Fascism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Coming American Fascism write by Lawrence Dennis. This book was released on 2021-12-29. The Coming American Fascism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written in 1936 before the entry of the united States into the second world War, the Coming American Fascism introduces a view into an often-overlooked system of politics and economics. In this book, Dennis identifies the limitations and impossibilities of the Laissez Faire system of governance while offering a controversial alternative.
Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism
Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism write by Anthony White. This book was released on 2019-07-30. Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the work of several modern artists, including Fortunato Depero, Scipione, and Mario Radice, who were working in Italy during the time of Benito Mussolini’s rise and fall. It provides a new history of the relationship between modern art and fascism. The study begins from the premise that Italian artists belonging to avant-garde art movements, such as futurism, expressionism, and abstraction, could produce works that were perfectly amenable to the ideologies of Mussolini’s regime. A particular focus of the book is the precise relationship between ideas of history and modernity encountered in the art and politics of the time and how compatible these truly were.
