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This is a ground breaking comparative study of the fascinating connections between African Americans and the Welsh, beginning in the era of slavery and concluding with the experiences of African American GIs in wartime Wales.

Title Black skin, blue books : African Americans and Wales, 1845-1945 / Daniel G. Williams.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press
Creation Date 2012
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction
Black Skin, Blue Books: Frederick Douglass, Abolitionism and Victorian Wales
'In the Wide Margin': Modernism and Ethnic Renaissance in Harlem and Wales
'They feel me a part of that land': Paul Robeson, Race and the Making of Modern Wales
The Invisible Man's Welsh Routes: Ralph Ellison in Wartime Wales
Conclusion: 1945
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Series Writing Wales in English
CREW series of Critical and Scholarly Studies
Extent 1 online resource (378 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2012
National Library system number 997010720872005171
MARC RECORDS
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