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Race and the Totalitarian Century

Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

By: Vaughn Rasberry

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Race and the Totalitarian Century

Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

By: Vaughn Rasberry

Few concepts evoke the twentieth century’s record of war, genocide, repression, and extremism more powerfully than the idea of totalitarianism. Today, studies of the subject are usually confined to discussions of Europe’s collapse in World War II or to comparisons between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. In Race and the Totalitarian Century, Vaughn Rasberry parts ways with both proponents and detractors of these normative conceptions in order to tell the strikingly different story of how black American writers manipulated the geopolitical rhetoric of their time. During World War II and the Cold War, the United States government conscripted African Americans into the fight against Nazism and Stalinism. An array of black writers, however, deflected the appeals of liberalism and its antitotalitarian propaganda in the service of decolonization. Richard Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham, C. L. R. James, John A. Williams, and others remained skeptical that totalitarian servitude and democratic liberty stood in stark opposition. Their skepticism allowed them to formulate an independent perspective that reimagined the antifascist, anticommunist narrative through the lens of racial injustice, with the United States as a tyrannical force in the Third World but also as an ironic agent of Asian and African independence. Bringing a new interpretation to events such as the Bandung Conference of 1955 and the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, Rasberry’s bird’s-eye view of black culture and politics offers an alternative history of the totalitarian century.

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Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

By: Vaughn Rasberry

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Prioritizing Your Priorities

Studies from the Book of Haggai

By: Lawrence Vaughn

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Prioritizing Your Priorities

Studies from the Book of Haggai

By: Lawrence Vaughn

How is it that there are so many of us who now have more than we have ever had, live better then we have ever lived, and yet there is still no contentment, no peace, no happiness. I believe that the answer lies in what we have allowed to become our new priority. The book of Haggai is the clarion call for us to wake up and take a conscientious look at what we are doing and what we have allowed to become our major concern! God is calling for us to consider our ways!

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