Democracy, Diaspora, and Disillusionment: Black Itinerancy and the Propaganda Wars Pubblico

Abstract

Democracy, Diaspora, and Disillusionment investigates the manner in which black writers contributed in
a variety of ways to what I term propaganda wars by comparing the United States to Russia and Cuba. I
trace the tensions between the newly democratic American government and Tsarist Russia, Communist
Russia, and Socialist Cuba as well as the multiplicity of responses to these ideals resulting from three
eras: the antebellum period, the First Red Scare, and the Second Red Scare. As a result of their largely
unsuccessful attempts to establish national and political diasporic communities, these authors face full-on
disillusionment in even the most "egalitarian" environs.

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Table of Contents

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Introduction .................................................................................................................................1

Chapter

1. Democracy v. Despotism: Unintended Objectivities in the Narratives of Nancy Prince and Nicholas Said.................................................................................................6

Marriage and Mobility: Nancy Prince and the Geography of Containment............16

Our Faith, Our Country, and Our People: Nicholas Said and the Power of
Cultural Capital.............................................................................................................33

2. "Black and White" and Read All Over: the Moscow Movie, the American Press, and the Promise of a Political Diaspora......................................................................52

3. Where Diaspora Meets Disillusionment: Panther Politics in Castro's Cuba……...81

Conclusion................................................................................................................................117

REFERENCES............................................................................................................................121

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School	Laney Graduate School
Department	English
Degree	PhD
Submission	Dissertation
Language	English
Research Field	Literature, American
Parola chiave	Russia Propaganda African American Diaspora
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Sanders, Mark, Emory University Foster, Frances Smith, Emory University
Committee Members	Apkarian, Juliette Stapanian, Emory University

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