Black skin, blue books : African Americans and the Welsh, 1845-1945
(2012)
By:
Williams, Daniel
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : University of Wales Press, 2012
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781783162727 MWT15784859, 1783162724 15784859
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Williams analyses and compares the ways in which African Americans and the Welsh have defined themselves as minorities within larger nation states (the UK and US). The study is grounded in examples of actual friendships and cultural exchanges between African Americans and the Welsh, such as Paul Robeson's connections with the socialists of the Welsh mining communities, and novelist Ralph Ellison's stories about his experiences as a GI stationed in wartime Swansea. This wide ranging book draws on literary, historical, visual and musical sources to open up new avenues of research in Welsh and African American studies
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